‘Dear Bob...’ Eyewitness to history tells of her terror as she got caught up in the 1916 Rising

Yesterday, 100 years ago, a young woman named Nora Costigan got caught up in the Rising. Niall Murray introduces her remarkable account of that week

Some time soon after the Rising, Nora Costigan wrote home to her brother Bob in Tipperary town.

The siblings had grown up in a small cottage in Barnora, near Cahir. But in 1916, 26-year-old Nora was a teacher at a national school that had only opened the year before in the small village of Clogh, near Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny.