The Dublin diocesan archives offer a fascinating insight into the Easter Rising, writes Noelle Dowling Msgr Michael Curran, secretary to Dublin’s Archbishop William Walsh, notes in several places that the archbishop’s health began to fail in the spring of 1916, and this left him incapacitated for long periods of time. On Easter Sunday, April 24,…
Dublin diocese under siege of bullets and flames during the Rising
The O’Rahilly’s burned out De Dion car in Prince’s Street, Dublin, in April 1916. Photo:
Public Domain.

