A 1916 diary....NOT in the news (February 28-March 5, 1916)

Details of what was being done this week 100 years ago by those planning the Rising, and how it was observed by British authorities in Ireland.

Monday, February 28

- Dublin councillor, William Partridge, set up a branch of the ITGWU union at Fenit, in Co Kerry, where he got men to hold out for an extra shilling a day on the arrival of a ship. The police inspector for Co Kerry warned that this, and his demand for an extra five shillings a week for labourers in Tralee, would probably lead to trouble. Partridge was helping to organise the unloading of German-supplied guns, expected to land in Fenit harbour over Easter weekend, in April. Police estimated membership of the Irish Volunteers, in Co Kerry, at 1,000 in 18 companies, with 400 rifles, 174 shotguns, and 80 revolvers in their possession.