3 - Copy letter from Charles Lynch

3

Copy letter from Charles Lynch

2 pp; typescript

A copy of a letter from Charles Lynch to ‘Willie’ referring to attacks on the magazine fort in the Phoenix Park and on Dublin Castle during the Rising. Lynch also refers to various rumours such as a plan to shell the Four Courts and the arrival of army reinforcements from England. He also mentions the successful use of a ‘locomotive boiler casing on a Guinness motor wagon’ to assault rebel-held positions. The letter is titled ‘Letters from Dublin. Easter 1916. 2nd Letter’.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition