Reference code
IE CA CP/3/23/3
Title
Copy letter from Charles Lynch
Date(s)
- 1916 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 pp; typescript
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A copy of a letter from Charles Lynch to ‘Willie’ referring to attacks on the magazine fort in the Phoenix Park and on Dublin Castle during the Rising. Lynch also refers to various rumours such as a plan to shell the Four Courts and the arrival of army reinforcements from England. He also mentions the successful use of a ‘locomotive boiler casing on a Guinness motor wagon’ to assault rebel-held positions. The letter is titled ‘Letters from Dublin. Easter 1916. 2nd Letter’.