Dublin Burning Brennan-Whitmore W. J.
Dublin Burning Brennan-Whitmore W. J. Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. Brennan-Whitmore was officer…
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Dublin Burning Brennan-Whitmore W. J.
Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. Brennan-Whitmore was officer commanding the Volunteer position at the head of North Earl Street, an outworking of the GPO garrison. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week.Commandant W.J.
He and his troops attempted to retreat northwards through the slums, hoping to reach the safety of the suburbs. Its purpose was to delay and frustrate any attempt by the British to deploy reinforcements coming from Amiens Street railway station (now Connolly).Commandant Brennan-Whitmore and his men held this position for over seventy-two hours until forced out by British artillery. But he and his men were not Dubliners and were unfamiliar with the city.
They were captured in a tenement where they had