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| The Capuchin friars at Church Street Dublin administered the last rights to the rebels. Read the recollections of Fr Albert and other first hand accounts of the events that shaped modern Irish history by some of the men and women who played an active part in the Rising and the War of Independence. |
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Martin Walton was 15 when he joined the volunteers just three weeks before the Rising.
Read his account |
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Joseph Sweeney was on sniper duty at the GPO during the Easter Rising.
Read his account |
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Cumann na mBan member Brighid Lyons Thornton volunteered for risky assignments during the Rising.
Read her account |
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Volunteer sniper Joseph Sweeney recalls the humiliation of surrender.
Read his account |
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Brighid Lyons Thornton never forgot the volley of shots that rang out at each execution.
Read her account |
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Martin Walton recalls how they prepared for guerrilla war after the Rising.
Read his account |
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David Neligan was an IRA volunteer during the War of Independence.
Read his account |
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John O’Sullivan was an IRA volunteer who had to assist in the execution of two British soldiers.
Read his account |
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Sean Heuston was the youngest of the rebels to be executed. His confessor, Fr Albert, recalls his last hours.
Read his account |
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