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‘The Men are Sleeping’ Important 1916 Documents
‘The Men are Sleeping’
Important 1916 Documents. A very interesting and important file of documents with provenance to G.A. Newsom, manager of the Jacob’s Factory in Dublin, occupied by insurgents commanded by Thomas MacDonagh during Easter Week 1916, as follows:
* A printed document headed ‘NOTICE / [three fleurons] / Please make no noise / as the men are sleeping’, on plain white poster-type paper circa 10 ½ ins x 10 ins, inscribed rear in a contemporary hand, ‘Printed by the I.R.A. / in Jacob’s Factory; & hung up there / during the Rebellion 1916. When / they took the Factory.’ Fold marks, frayed at one edge, no loss, a little print offsetting. To our knowledge unrecorded, probably A UNIQUE SURVIVAL from those dramatic days in April 1916.
* Surrender Order. A contemporary manuscript copy of Pearse’s Surrender Order headed ‘H.Q. Moore St’ and subscribed ‘P.H. Pearse / Commandant General / Commanding in Chief / the Army of the Irish Republic’, dated 29 April 1916, in an unknown hand, not Pearse’s. The text, beginning ‘Believing that the glorious stand ..’, matches copies signed by Pearse for distribution to outlying units (one of at least three different versions of the surrender order). Written on the rear of a blank W.& R. Jacob memo form, evidently broadly contemporary.
* Typescript (carbon copy) account by P. Barry, a Jacob’s employee, dated 14th May 1916, headed ‘COPY / To Mr G.A. Newsom, Director’, 1 pp, with ms. annotations adding names, on rear of a Jacob’s continuation sheet, describing how he went to the factory about 3.30 on Sunday April 30th, having heard of the surrender, ‘surprised and amazed to find Bishop Street full of Looters .. with armfuls of tins of biscuits .. others carrying away ten stone bags of flour .. It was disgraceful .. we entered and found the Volunteers ready to leave, I addressed the Commander and told him we were employees of the firm and wished to stop the looting. He readily agreed and told us to pass along and take two rifles with us. We found about 50 looters coming from the lofts, we made them drop their loot .. (They asked for mercy and not to shoot them) .. hearing the clergy were in the house I invoked their aid. I found Father Aloyious [sic] .. and Father Monaghan .. They got out on the window sill and addressed the crowd with determination and said they should be flogged bringing ruin and disgrace on this country.’
A fascinating account, evidently authentic. Part (only) is quoted in W&R Jacob: Celebrating 150 Years of Irish Biscuit Making, by Séamas Ó Maitiú (Woodfield Press, 2001).
* Typescript (carbon copy), 2pp, on rear of Jacob’s continuation sheets, ‘Account given by Mr P. Cushen of his experience at the Biscuit Factory at the time of the surrender of the Rebels on April 30th 1916’. Again a fascinating contemporary account, ‘ran down about 3 p.m. and saw about 90 of them getting out of the windows and a lot of the rabble getting in up the rope that was hanging from the office window, and tumbling the sacks of flour out .. got in to the Bakehouse and was surprised to see between 90 and 100 of the rebels standing and sitting around .. One of the officers of the rebels came in .. said there was a lot of bombs stored away that would blow up the whole place .. showed me where there were some hand grenades stored .. left me on guard of them and told me on peril of my life not to let anyone lay a hand on them until the Military came in that knew what they were. He then went away after making himself known to me, I found myself introduced to Major McBride, for the first and last time .. Just then the [British] soldiers came in, ordered me at the point of the bayonet to take down ‘that d— rebel flag’, which he did, etc., with more detail about the looting, Frs. Aloysius and Monaghan etc., saw Major McBride marshalling the rebels in the Bakehouse and forming them into ranks. McBride was called ‘General’ by the rebels and was the only Commander P. Cushen was aware of.
‘The Men are Sleeping’
Important 1916 Documents. A very interesting and important file of documents with provenance to G.A. Newsom, manager of the Jacob’s Factory in Dublin, occupied by insurgents commanded by Thomas MacDonagh during Easter Week 1916, as follows:
* A printed document headed ‘NOTICE / [three fleurons] / Please make no noise / as the men are sleeping’, on plain white poster-type paper circa 10 ½ ins x 10 ins, inscribed rear in a contemporary hand, ‘Printed by the I.R.A. / in Jacob’s Factory; & hung up there / during the Rebellion 1916. When / they took the Factory.’ Fold marks, frayed at one edge, no loss, a little print offsetting. To our knowledge unrecorded, probably A UNIQUE SURVIVAL from those dramatic days in April 1916.
* Surrender Order. A contemporary manuscript copy of Pearse’s Surrender Order headed ‘H.Q. Moore St’ and subscribed ‘P.H. Pearse / Commandant General / Commanding in Chief / the Army of the Irish Republic’, dated 29 April 1916, in an unknown hand, not Pearse’s. The text, beginning ‘Believing that the glorious stand ..’, matches copies signed by Pearse for distribution to outlying units (one of at least three different versions of the surrender order). Written on the rear of a blank W.& R. Jacob memo form, evidently broadly contemporary.
* Typescript (carbon copy) account by P. Barry, a Jacob’s employee, dated 14th May 1916, headed ‘COPY / To Mr G.A. Newsom, Director’, 1 pp, with ms. annotations adding names, on rear of a Jacob’s continuation sheet, describing how he went to the factory about 3.30 on Sunday April 30th, having heard of the surrender, ‘surprised and amazed to find Bishop Street full of Looters .. with armfuls of tins of biscuits .. others carrying away ten stone bags of flour .. It was disgraceful .. we entered and found the Volunteers ready to leave, I addressed the Commander and told him we were employees of the firm and wished to stop the looting. He readily agreed and told us to pass along and take two rifles with us. We found about 50 looters coming from the lofts, we made them drop their loot .. (They asked for mercy and not to shoot them) .. hearing the clergy were in the house I invoked their aid. I found Father Aloyious [sic] .. and Father Monaghan .. They got out on the window sill and addressed the crowd with determination and said they should be flogged bringing ruin and disgrace on this country.’
A fascinating account, evidently authentic. Part (only) is quoted in W&R Jacob: Celebrating 150 Years of Irish Biscuit Making, by Séamas Ó Maitiú (Woodfield Press, 2001).
* Typescript (carbon copy), 2pp, on rear of Jacob’s continuation sheets, ‘Account given by Mr P. Cushen of his experience at the Biscuit Factory at the time of the surrender of the Rebels on April 30th 1916’. Again a fascinating contemporary account, ‘ran down about 3 p.m. and saw about 90 of them getting out of the windows and a lot of the rabble getting in up the rope that was hanging from the office window, and tumbling the sacks of flour out .. got in to the Bakehouse and was surprised to see between 90 and 100 of the rebels standing and sitting around .. One of the officers of the rebels came in .. said there was a lot of bombs stored away that would blow up the whole place .. showed me where there were some hand grenades stored .. left me on guard of them and told me on peril of my life not to let anyone lay a hand on them until the Military came in that knew what they were. He then went away after making himself known to me, I found myself introduced to Major McBride, for the first and last time .. Just then the [British] soldiers came in, ordered me at the point of the bayonet to take down ‘that d— rebel flag’, which he did, etc., with more detail about the looting, Frs. Aloysius and Monaghan etc., saw Major McBride marshalling the rebels in the Bakehouse and forming them into ranks. McBride was called ‘General’ by the rebels and was the only Commander P. Cushen was aware of.
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