Broadsides – A collection of bits and pieces
"Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog”
This article was originally published in the Bar Review, April 2016 Apart from the great magazine in Phoenix Park, most of the buildings seized by the rebel forces during Easter week 1916 were not defended buildings, in the sense that Dublin or Ireland was under threat or that its public buildings required that they... Continue Reading →
So far as I know there is but one single memento to the role played by the Four Courts during the Easter Rising of 1916. It is a portrait that hangs in the Irish bay of the barrister's Law Library. It is of Charles S. Bevan, the volunteer who helped to relieve the Chancery Place... Continue Reading →
Conscription came in March 1916. By Easter of that year the last of the army's voluntary recruits were coming to the end of their training for the trenches of France. They knew, those young men, of the risks they faced in Flanders; they knew of the casualty lists. But still they volunteered, to fight, be... Continue Reading →
Broadsides - A collection of bits and pieces 