Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising from Behind the Barricades
W. J. Brennan-Whitmore
Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week.
Commandant W.J. Brennan-Whitmore was officer commanding the Volunteer position at the head of North Earl Street, an outworking of the GPO garrison. Its purpose was to delay and frustrate any attempt by the British to deploy reinforcements coming from Amiens Street railway station (now Connolly).
Commandant Brennan-Whitmore and his men held this position for over seventy-two hours until forced out ... Read more
Brennan-Whitmore’s book is a unique document, one of the most valuable accounts of the Rising available to us.
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