Ireland--Douglas, Lt. Henry

with detailed daily entries, incorrectly dated until Sunday 30 April (with Tuesday 25 April recorded as 26 April, etc), commencing with his landing at Kingstown, describing his slow advance into central Dublin, reaching Portobello Barracks by the evening of 26 April, describing snipers, the arrival of prisoners, raids on the homes of suspected rebels including Douglas ffrench-Mullen (whose mother proved "very sarcastic") and Countess Markievicz ("...place so full of incriminating stuff ... letters here confirmed Austrian-German & American speaking of the East coast raid, the air raid, & also the west of Ireland..."), his advance to Wellington Barracks on 28 April (incorrectly dated 29 April) with skirmishes ("...Shots fired on picket from house opposite oil works. Searched place & found ladder leading from garden to roof, post showed evident signs of use, left sentry over ladder, & on leaving garden was fired on from one of the windows by someone with an automatic, don't know how he missed..."), preparations for attack, and the observations of the city's destruction ("...City entirely on fire about Sackville Street..."), recording his arrival at HQ on Sackville St after the rebel surrender on 30 April and impressions of central Dublin, then the Battalion's withdrawal to Richmond Barracks and subsequent use as "portion of 'flying columns' for north & west Ireland", with the following weeks spent patrolling various towns, chiefly in County Roscommon but also visiting Longford, Mullingar, Carrick-On-Shannon, and elsewhere, 67 pages, plus blanks, mostly written on rectos only with final entries written from the reverse, black ink, purple ink and a few later comments added in pencil, 12mo (132 x 80mm), 25 April (incorrectly dated 26 April) to 26 May 1916, red card wrappers, housed in an envelope addressed to Mrs H. Douglas, postmarked 26 May 1916, in which it was returned to his wife; covers creased, first and last pages discoloured

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"...Had a look round Moor St., which was a real stronghold. Each house being tunnelled through to the next & lookholes being most ingeniously arranged. Sackville St ruined. Post Office gutted, in fact, the whole of the principal part of Dublin entirely wrecked..."

Henry Douglas of Matlock, in Derbyshire, was a Lieutenant in the Second (Robin Hood) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) Regiment, which was hurriedly transferred to Ireland on 26 April 1916 at the outbreak of the Easter Rising.