Easter Rising 1916 A Family Answers the Call for Ireland`s Freedom: Easter Rising 1916 A Family Answers the Call for Ireland`s Freedom, #1

By Gabriel Woods

A true story of the violent revolutionary rebellion of the 1916 war against the British Empire in Ireland. This was a violent bloody event that began on Easter Monday at the General Post Office in Dublin. A small poorly equipped army of men and women declared Ireland`s independence.

 

t`s a sunny Easter Monday. Paul, a doctor, is strolling toward The GPO. Mary, a cleaner in The Gresham, has finished her shift and is walking down O`Connell Street, beginning her journey home. Coming from very different backgrounds, Mary living in poverty and Paul living in upper class Dublin, their lives become joined as the events of the Easter Rising 1916 begin to unfold at the General Post Office. Paul and Mary witness their beloved city of Dublin torn apart during a week of destruction, violence and death.

Irish men and women joined the Easter Rising on April 14, 1916. They did so for true Irish independence, an end to prejudice against minorities and freedom from British rule. The Easter Rising began when the Proclamation was read by Patrick Pearse outside the GPO declaring Ireland`s right for independence and equality for all her people. The Rising ended with vicious violence, the executions of the leaders along with 90 other people all buried an an unmarked mass grave. More than 3,430 men and 79 women were arrested across Ireland after the event. 420 people died. The Ireland of 1916, after two weeks, would change forever.

This book describes the story of two brothers and one sister of the McGowan family. These were real life Irish men and women of principle and they had a belief in Ireland`s freedom. The family were determined to gain independence for Irish people under the leadership of Padraig Pearce and James Connolly. Discover the fate of the two brothers and one sister and find out if their vision of Ireland was achieved.

The author Gabriel Woods has researched in detail the occurrences of Easter Week 1916 from various sources. The events of the Easter Rising 1916 are factual. The stories about Charlie, Claude and Josephine McGowan are true events recorded by Gabriel Woods from a surviving relative.

Easter week 1916 was a time of violence and death as the people of Dublin and Ireland were thrown into disarray and fear. It was also a time of heroic deeds. This book takes you on an informative, well researched and dramatic journey through the events of the Easter Rising 1916. The aftermath is also described and whether the principles of the Men and Women of 1916 Rising were achieved.

The myth and falsity around Easter Rising is dispelled by the astonishing facts within this account of the events while at the same time being an entertaining read. The author has examined the historical facts of Easter Rising from a wide variety of sources and the truth about Easter Rising 1916 will be exposed when you have concluded this gripping book.

This book is different to other books in it`s genre in Amazon. The author uses characters to discuss the social issues of the time that led to the Easter Rising. His views are supported by the history of a family involved in the Rising as he has recorded from a surviving relative. The author also records life in Ireland after 1916. The strife and distress experienced during this era has been written and recorded by Gabriel Woods from interviews of the survivor as she struggled in the aftermath of Easter Rising 1916.

Easter Rising 1916 A Family Answers The Call For Ireland`s Freedom has achieved high ratings from Amazon. Relatives of those who took part in the Rising have been very pleased with the book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gabriel Woods
• Release date: Apr 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201696139

Gabriel Woods

I am Gabriel Woods, author of The Golden age Trilogy and four other books including Easter Rising 1916 A Family Answers the Call for Ireland`s Freedom. My latest novel is The Golden Age Evolution, view Facebook Books by Gabriel Woods. I researched and described in my novel The Golden Age Dawns how a serious pandemic manifests and the proper international public health procedures used to control an outbreak such as in my novel the Black Marbella virus sweeps across London and the world. Covid international policy and how Covid has manifested differs widely from the proper public health procedures used to control virus outbreaks. I have obtained a Degree in Psychology and a Masters in Aid work Management from University College Dublin, a Certificate in Counselling from University Maynooth in Ireland and I am a fully trained life coach. I have travelled around the world and lived in Sydney and Brisbane in Australia. I explored major sacred places and the spiritual practices of aboriginal culture and the Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim ancient sites of India. I am the author of nine published books and my very popular positively reviewed The Golden Age Trilogy.   

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Easter Rising 1916

A Family Answers The Call For Ireland’s Freedom

By

Gabriel Woods

Copyright © 2018 by Gabriel Woods

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Events Of Easter Rising

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Events Of The Easter Rising

Mary rushed down the marble steps of the Gresham after a long twelve-hour shift. It was Easter Monday 1916. She wore a long, grey jacket covering her from head to toe. The top of her jacket had large, black woollen flaps that gave a second layer of material to theupper body of her jacket, to protect her from the cold air that blew down Sackville Street. Mary wore a black hat that had grey whirls of cotton on top. You could barely see her feet which were covered by black, pointed boots.

Although only twenty-five years old, she looked forty. The skin on her hands was worn and wrinkled from a lifetime of scrubbing and cleaning.They were immaculately clean –something that was required at the hotel. Mary had fine, voluminous blonde hair that tumbled out of her jacket and down her neck and indicated her youthful age. She loosened her hair after her day’s work. Mary’s shining hair was the only feature that indicated she was younger than the skin on her face suggested.

The Gresham had a reputation for being one of the grandest hotels in Dublin. It was a tall stone building on Sackville Street. Its name was depicted in gold letters. A man opened and closed the wooden doors of the hotel which were flanked by brass bars on the side walls. Page boys scurried around the marble hall collecting bags and bringing them to their rooms.  Mary was almost invisible as she discreetly moved in and out of the hotel rooms; she cleaned the rooms of the third floor alone. Mary put a lot of effort into cleaning. Each room had to be spotless. Even a smudge on a mirror or window would agitate the well-heeled visitors to the hotel. Once, shehad been reprimanded for leaving the mattress slightly to the left of the right bedpost and her manager threatened that she would lose her job should she clean a room anything less than perfect in the future. Laying the mattress on the bed was a struggle for her. When Mary lifted it to place it on the base of the bed it towered five foot above her head and five foot either side. She resolved to always place the mattress down correctly and often checked several times the position of the mattress before leaving the room.Mary dusted the oil paintings and the mahogany wood furniture, and the large gold-painted framed mirrors. When one room was finished, she repeated the same cleaning tasksin her allotted rooms. At times, she sweated and toward the end of her shift she often became breathless. She scrubbed and polished meticulously every moment of the day except for a thirty-minute break.

The guests were generous in the tips they left on leaving the hotel but the English clients were known for requiring everything to be done just right - in particular the cleanliness of their room. Mary had seen staff fired immediately following one complaint from a very influential member of the House of Lords that had stayed for one night. Despite the cleaner falling to her knees and begging to keep her job, she was told to leave. The fired cleaner would have no money until she got her next employment which would not be easy as there were few hotels in Dublin city centre.

Irish people had become accustomed to the English governance of Ireland. They had gone to war under the banner of England and had seen the country as the defender of Europe. Irish people