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“Like any young student caught up in momentous, violent events,\u00a0Eileen Corrigan\u00a0was anxious lest her parents were worried about her welfare.<\/p>\n
It was Monday, April 24th \u2013 Easter Monday, 1916 \u2013 and bullets were flying around Dublin city centre. Eileen arrived from Belfast that evening to sit her exams in the\u00a0Trinity College\u00a0examination hall over the next two days, and thought it best to drop a note home.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a line to let you know I arrived safely, in case the papers should make you anxious,\u201d 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\u2019s digs at the Young Woman\u2019s Christian Association in Rathmines.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll communication is stopped from Dublin\u201d, she continued, \u201cbut 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.\u201d (…)”<\/p>\n
Click here<\/a> to read the full article by Peter Murtagh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trinity seeks \u2018ordinary\u2019 letters relating to 1916 events “Like any young student caught up in momentous, violent events,\u00a0Eileen Corrigan\u00a0was anxious lest her parents were worried about her welfare. It was Monday, April 24th \u2013 Easter Monday, 1916 \u2013 and bullets Continue reading Today: Letters 1916 in the Irish Times<\/span>