Trinity seeks ‘ordinary’ letters relating to 1916 events
“Like any young student caught up in momentous, violent events, Eileen Corrigan was anxious lest her parents were worried about her welfare.
It was Monday, April 24th – Easter Monday, 1916 – and bullets were flying around Dublin city centre. Eileen arrived from Belfast that evening to sit her exams in the Trinity College examination hall over the next two days, and thought it best to drop a note home.
“Just a line to let you know I arrived safely, in case the papers should make you anxious,” she wrote to her parents. Her father was the Rev William Corrigan, minister at the Green Road Methodist Church in fashionable Knock, a part of east Belfast. The little postcard was sent from Eileen’s digs at the Young Woman’s Christian Association in Rathmines.
“All communication is stopped from Dublin”, she continued, “but a lady promised to post this to-morrow from the North. Everything will probably be all right to-morrow, as the military are coming from Curragh.” (…)”
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