Rebellion in Wartime Ireland – Easter 1916

1. Lee, Ireland 1912 -1985, Politics and Society, p.24.
2. Reinhard R. Doerries, Prelude to the Easter Rising, Sir Roger Casement in Im perial Germany , (Frank Cass, London, 2000), p. 9.
3. Doerries, Prelude to the Easter Rising, p.13.
4. Roger Sawyer, Casement The Flawed Hero, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London,1984), p.161.
5. Cork Examiner, 26 April 1916.
6. Public Record Office, Kew, PRO 30/67/31
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Lee, Ireland 1912 -1985, Politics and Society, p.24.
11. CAI/PR/6/42(5) Seamus Fitzgerald papers.
12. Irish War News, 25 April 1916.
13. Captain McCance, History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, vol.2, p.197.
14. Cork Examiner, 27 April 1916.
15. Cork Examiner, 28 April 1916.
16. Cork Examiner, 29 April 1916.
17. Thomas Anthony Linehan, The Development of Cork's economy 1910-1939, (MA Thesis University College Cork, 1984), pp 38-39.
18. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col. 30, (3 May 1916).
19. Ibid. Vol.82.col.30, (3 May 1916).
20. Ibid.
21. Public Record Office, Kew, PRO 30/67/31, Midleton Papers, Royal Commission on the Rebellion in Ireland.  
22. Leon Ó Broin, The Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell in Ireland, (Chatto & Windus, London, 1969), p.172.
23. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col. 33, (3 May 1916).
24. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol. 65, col. 1828 (3 August 1914).
25. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col. 33, (3 May 1916).
26. Cork Examiner, 4 May 1916.
27. Ibid., 4 May 1916.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Cork Examiner, 5 May 1916.
35. Ibid., 5 May 1916.
36. Freeman's Journal, 5 May 1916.
37. Ibid., 5 May 1916.
38. Cork Examiner, 6 May 1916.
39. Ibid., 6 May 1916.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Sir. Lees Knowles, Bart. C.V.O. 'Irish Impressions' , Saturday Review,( Tillotson & Son, Ltd, London, 1918), p 3.
43. Knowles, 'Irish Impression', p.3.
44. ibid.
45. ibid.
46. ibid.
47. Cork Examiner, 8 May 1916.
48. Ibid, 8 May 1916.
49. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col. 281. (8 May 1916).
50. Public Record Office, Kew, London, PRO 30/67/31 
51. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col. 283, (8 May 1916).
52. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col. 284, (8 May 1916).
53. Irish Independent, 1 August 1916.
54. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col.450, (9 May 1916).
55. Ibid., Vol. 82. col. 450, (9 May 1916).
56. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col.455, (9 May 1916).
57. Cork Harbour Commissioners, Vol. 47.  October 1915 to July 1916.
58. Freeman's Journal, 13 May 1916.
59. Cork Examiner, 12 May 1916.
60. Freeman's Journal, 13 May 1916.
61. Knowles, Irish Impressions, p.5.
62. Knowles, Irish Impressions, p.6.
63. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82, col.1621, (18 May 1916).
64. UC/WOB/PP/AS/89/ William O' Brien papers.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Freeman's Journal, 5 May 1916.
68. Freeman's Journal, 2 June 1916.
69. Ibid., 2 June 1916.
70. Freeman's Journa l, 7 June 1916.
71. Ibid., 7 June 1916.
72. Cork Examiner, 7 June 1916.
73. Ó Broin, The Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell in Ireland, p. 185. 
74. Ibid.
75. Ibid. 
76. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col. 1806, (22 May 1916).
77. Hansard   fifth Series, Vol.82.col. 2534, (30 May 1916).
78. http://www.wcml.org.uk/people/hss (taken from Hanna Sheehy Skeffington's book, 'British Militarism As I Have Known It, Donnelly Press, New York, 1917).
79. Ibid.
80. Ibid.
81. Ibid.
82. Irish Independent, 17 October 1916.
83. Irish Times, 24 April 2000. (taken from http://homepage.tinet.ie/~irishhistory/An%20Irishman.htm).

Author: David Hennessy