With the British Army in Flanders & France

The final acts during the week of the Easter Rising took place here, in the narrow cobbled streets behind the rebel headquarters at the GPO.

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Thanks to a very kind (and deliberately slow) taxi driver, I managed to get some shots of Boland’s Mill as we passed by (this one taken as the mill receded into the distance). Continue reading →

The Grand Canal, Dublin, with Mount Street Bridge in the background.  Some of the heaviest fighting during the Rising took place around the bridge on Wednesday 26th April 1916, as the Sherwood Foresters, bruised and battered as they fought their way up Northumberland Road (last post), attempted to cross the canal. Continue reading →

On the morning of Wednesday 26th April 1916, British reinforcements began to arrive in Ireland, disembarking at Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), and moving towards the south eastern outskirts of Dublin.  Ordered to make their way by the most direct route to Dublin Castle, the men of the Notts & Derby Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) would have to find a way across the Grand Canal, and the bridge at Mount Street, at the northern end of Northumberland Road, would seem the most obvious choice. Continue reading →

Royal Barracks, as it was known at the time of the Rising, is the second oldest public building in Dublin, after the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham – see last post – dating back to 1701. Continue reading →

The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, was the headquarters of Brigadier General William Lowe, who assumed command of the British forces in Dublin at the time of the Rising, and there was serious fighting in the vicinity, most notably at the South Dublin Union, not far out of shot to the right (south), and easily within range of a British machine gun sited on the roof of the hospital. Continue reading →