Cote
IE CA CP/3/23/3
Titre
Copy letter from Charles Lynch
Date(s)
- 1916 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
2 pp; typescript
Nom du producteur
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Portée et contenu
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’.