Revolutionary Ireland

1916 Diary of Lilian Stokes

Revolutionary Ireland

Show Notes

In this episode Lorcan Collins reads the diary of an eyewitness to the events of Easter Week 1916. Lillian Stokes was living on Raglan Road in Dublin and wrote a detailed diary about everything she heard and saw during the 1916 Rising. Her evocative account is very well written and adds much to the story of 1916.

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