Ebook: 1916: what the people saw

Acknowledgements; The Easter Rising, day by day; Introduction; 'The streets are not exactly health resorts'; 'As he lay on his back he spouted blood like a fountain'; 'The poor dog is nearly out of her mind'; 'Wait a minute -- have a look at our corpse first!'; 'Notwithstanding the sound of machine-guns and cannon, i was completely engrossed in my reading'; 'Within three hours of the outbreak of fighting, an amputation was going on'; 'All that made life worthwhile was being taken from us forever'; 'The little war up in dublin left mayo unmoved';Contemporary civilian accounts of life in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising show what it was really like on the streets.