Source: File: A sketch of inside the GPO during the 1916 Easter
Rising in Dublin Ireland. (National
Museum of Ireland) [online] See an original image at: <http://hubpages.com/education/1916-Easter-Rising-Sean-McDermott-executed-Kilmainham-Jail-Arbour-Hill-Stoneybatter-Dublin-Irish-history-Ireland>
[Accessed: 12 May 2016]
Within the Irish
Easter Monday rising,
Came a tale of a
Royal Fusiliers officer -
The Lieutenant
was captured by rebels,
And held prisoner
in the General Post
Office - After
being searched for arms
His hands were bound by
telephone wire.
Over the
following days the Lieutenant
Observed how the
insurgents consisted
Of various trade
experts; electricians
Engineers and an explosive
expert from
Germany - an
elaborate method was set
To ensure the
prisoners did not move.
Kept down into
the cellar the prisoners
Were blocked in
by boxes, amid stores
Of dynamite,
cordite, gelignite including
Guncotton - a
light was left on to reveal
One box of
gelignite, set up with fuses -
Bombs were placed
about the cellar.
Within this setting
the rebels situated
Their prisoners -
left to debate their
Fate, as rats in
a trap - all together
They kept calling
out, until a rebel
Appeared to say 'its
alright boys' -
By then the GPO
was well on fire.
Taking them to a
yard at this buildings
Rear down into a
corridor, emerging
In a room where
they faced a woman,
Dressed like a
man - she stood, waving
A revolver at
them - along with threats
She spat at English lieutenant's face.
After a short
time the prisoners were
Led outside - they
were to be used
As a protective
screen in order for
Rebels to escape
- pushed to front
Of prisoners stood the Lieutenant,
Of prisoners stood the Lieutenant,
With a private of
the Dublin Fusiliers.
Ahead of them, at
some 150 yards,
Were watching English
troops who
Manned a machine
gun - a rebel
Held a gun to his
head; in promise
To fire, unless
he ran - taking to his
Feet the officer
was shot at ten yards.
The English Lieutenant fell forwards
In the street, wounded
in the thigh.
The officer looked about to see
Behind him, how the
rebel unload
A gun into the Dublin
Fusiliers head.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916.
Officers Escape - Help From A Rebel. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 8 May 1916. P.11. Col.2. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12209758/Daily-Telegraph-May-8-1916.html> [Accessed: 12 May 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie
Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 12 May 2016).
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