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On Thursday eve. we heard the fight could
be very fierce, so at 7.30. pm. all the nuns
& children assembled in Church & Mother
General said prayers aloud - Miserere,
Litany of S. Heart, B.V. Mary & St. Joseph.

We all made the Holy Hour from 9 to 10 pm.
& then ended up by saying the 5 Paters &
Aves at S. Patricks Altar.

The fires in the city were terrible we could
see them from St. Joseph's building &
the cannonading & continual firing most awful.

In the earlier part of the day M.r Burke
came out with letters from Green - which
gave much relief to Mother General, & she
wrote back by her.

28th Friday.

Great firing all day - first news
paper received since Easter Saturday was
brought by some visitor & lads hailed with
instense delight. Fires still raging all night.
(on Thursday Mother Provincial & Mistress
... remained up all night as it was expected
in town that the Sinn Feiners, if driven out

On Thursday eve. we heard the fight could
be very fierce, so at 7.30. pm. all the nuns
& children assembled in Church & Mother
General said prayers aloud - Miserere,
Litany of S. Heart, B.V. Mary & St. Joseph.

We all made the Holy Hour from 9 to 10 pm.
& then ended up by saying the 5 Paters &
Aves at S. Patricks Altar.

The fires in the city were terrible we could
see them from St. Joseph's building &
the cannonading & continual firing most awful.

In the earlier part of the day M.r Burke
came out with letters from Green - which
gave much relief to Mother General, & she
wrote back by her.

28th Friday.

Great firing all day - first news
paper received since Easter Saturday was
brought by some visitor & lads hailed with
instense delight. Fires still raging all night.
(on Thursday Mother Provincial & Mistress
... remained up all night as it was expected
in town that the Sinn Feiners, if driven out