Extract from “The Rising” by Desmond Ryan (1949) On Wednesday morning, April 20, 1916, two Volunteer dispatch carriers hurried from the Mendicity Institution near Usher’s Island on the Liffey’s southern quays through barricades and dangerous streets and lanes past the Four Courts and the duels of British and Republican snipers with a very urgent message from … Continue reading ‘At the Mendicity Institution’ 1916