A 1916 diary....NOT in the news (March 14 - 20, 1916)

Irish Volunteers organiser and Brigade vice-commandant Tomás MacCurtain was in Dublin at a meeting in the organisation’s headquarters. Also in attendance: Volunteers chief-of-staff Eoin MacNeill, and other headquarters staff like JJ O’Connell, and IRB Military Council member Thomas MacDonagh who would be one of seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Republic, and Michael O’Hanrahan (who, like MacDonagh, was also executed after the Rising).