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The History Sale 19th April 2016
McKenzie, F.A., The Irish Rebellion: What Happened - And Why, London, 1916, published within
within months of the rebellion’s end. McKenzie wrote in the preface: “This little book describes
what I saw and learned in Dublin during the Easter rising of 1916. [The capital R wasn’t added
until later] “Two representatives of the Canadian Press were chosen to visit Ireland while the
fighting was on. I had the good fortune to be one of them.”
McKenzie was a seasoned war correspondent, who, because he was neither British nor Irish,
wrote from a different angle - his years of experience gave him a journalist’s eye for the detail of
not just the rebellion, but its causes and background as well.
€ 200 - 300
A monochrome photographic print, 10 x 6cm, depicting three
prisoners and soldiers in Richmond Barracks, 1916, one prisoner
believed to be John MacBride (1868 - 5 May 1916), probably taken
with a Box Brownie.
Following the rebels’ surrender, over 3,000 suspected rebels
including 77 women were taken and held at Richmond Barracks
before being sent to prison camps in England and Wales. The
leaders and more prominent persons were identified and their
courts-martial took place in Richmond Barracks before they were
sent to Kilmainham Gaol for execution. John MacBride was execut-
ed on the 5th May 1916.
€ 200 - 300