The Insurrection in Dublin

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 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 emendation. -From foreword of the book