[Transcriber's note: The spelling inconsistencies of the original are retained in this etext.] _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ POEMS INSURRECTIONS (Maunsel) THE HILL OF VISION " GREEN BRANCHES " SONGS FROM THE CLAY (Macmillan) THE ADVENTURES OF SEUMAS BEG " * * * * * PROSE THE CHARWOMANS DAUGHTER (Macmillan) THE CROCK OF GOLD " HERE ARE LADIES " THE DEMI-GODS " * * * * * THE INSURRECTION IN DUBLIN BY JAMES STEPHENS MAUNSEL & COMPANY, LTD. DUBLIN AND LONDON 1916 CONTENTS FOREWORD CHAP. I. MONDAY II. TUESDAY III. WEDNESDAY IV. THURSDAY V. FRIDAY VI. SATURDAY VII. SUNDAY VIII. THE INSURRECTION IS OVER IX. THE VOLUNTEERS X. SOME OF THE LEADERS XI. LABOUR AND THE INSURRECTION XII. THE IRISH QUESTIONS FOREWORD The day before the rising was Easter Sunday, and they were crying joyfully in the Churches "Christ has risen." On the following day they were saying in the streets "Ireland has risen." The luck of the moment was with her. The auguries were good, and, notwithstanding all that has succeeded, I do not believe she must take to the earth again, nor be ever again buried. The pages hereafter were written day by day during the Insurrection that followed Holy Week, and, as a hasty impression of a most singular time, the author allows them to stand without any emendation. The few chapters which make up this book are not a history of the rising. I knew nothing about the rising. I do not know anything about it now, and it may be years before exact information on the subject is available. What I have written is no more than a statement of what passed in one quarter of our city, and a gathering together of the rumour and tension which for nearly two weeks had to serve the Dublin people in lieu of news. It had to serve many Dublin people in place of bread. To-day, the 8th of May, the book is finished, and, so far as Ireland is immediately concerned, the insurrection is over. Action now lies with England, and on that action depends whether the Irish Insurrection is over or only suppressed.