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Title: The Insurrection in Dublin

Author: James Stephens

Release Date: July 9, 2004 [EBook #12871]

Language: English

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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

POEMS

INSURRECTIONS (Maunsel)

THE HILL OF VISION "

GREEN BRANCHES "

SONGS FROM THE CLAY (Macmillan)

THE ADVENTURES OF SEUMAS BEG "

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PROSE

THE CHARWOMANS DAUGHTER (Macmillan)

THE CROCK OF GOLD "

HERE ARE LADIES "

THE DEMI-GODS "

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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