Poem ~ The Rise Of Ireland: British Reaction - Tuesday, 25 April 1916

Source: File: Irish Citizen Army group outside Liberty Hall. [online] See original image at: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_Citizen_Army_Group_Liberty_Hall_Dublin_1914.jpg> (Published in the US before 1923 and public domain in the US) [Accessed: 25 April 2016]

Tuesday - A Call To Ireland

By the following day martial law

Was declared,

By Lord Lieutenant Lord Wimborne -

Brigadier General

William Lowe, was given civil powers,

In order to force

Rebellion into groups of isolation.

Not knowing how large a force

They faced, came Lowe's 

1,269 troops in Dublin - from early

Hours soldiers armed

With machine guns held buildings,

A hotel and club, which

Overlooked St Stephens Green.

With dawn breaking, British aimed

On rebels who retreated

Into the Royal College of Surgeons.

All roads to Dublin castle

Were secured - while the anarchists

Headquarters was thought

To be Liberty Hall - would be cut off.

All attempts to repair railway lines

Came under renegade

Attacks, from Annesley Bridge -

With some soldiers

Captured - a two hour battle ended

By British retreat - a standoff
Starts at Phibsborough barricades.

Field artillery destroyed the roads

Forcing Irish withdrawal -

Back in Dublin, leader Patrick Pearse

Once again emerged - 

Following the proclamation, he read

Out a new manifesto,

To boost support from Dublin crowds.

Before Nelson's Pillar citizens were

Called on to assist -

But majority did not want the effects

Of war on the city -

While the intent continued to stand

Against British rule,

The second day of rebellion ended.

by Jamie Mann.

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Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 25 April 2016). 

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