A 1916 diary ... NOT in the news

How this week 100 years ago was spent by the main players behind the Rising, based largely on observations of their movements by police.

A member of the Irish Volunteers was charged in Tullamore with attempted murder of Royal Irish Constabulary, but was later discharged on technical grounds. Sergeant Ahern who was injured in the affray at the Volunteers Hall, Tullamore the previous week was reported to be progressing satisfactorily.

Headquarters of Irish Volunteers in Dublin were the venue for meetings of JJ O’Connell (HQ staff), Terence MacSwiney (vice-commandant Cork Brigade), Herbert Mellows, Patrick Hughes and Patrick Ryan. As well as MacSwiney, Dublin police monitored the movements of Seán MacDiarmada (IRB Military Council member, involved in impending rebellion), and Michael Joseph O’Rahilly (Irish Volunteers figure, opposed to a Rising).