Uncommon Valour (14 page)
Soldiers of the 2/7th and 2/8th Sherwood Foresters resting after their engagement on Mount Street during the 1916 Easter Rising (de Valera Papers, University College Dublin)
Also available from Mercier Press:
Blood on the Streets: 1916 & The Battle for Mount Street Bridge
Paul O'Brien
ISBN: 978 1 85635 576 6
Blood on the Streets
explores what really happened during the battle for Mount Street Bridge. Based around the bridge over the canal at Mount Street, three well-positioned groups of Volunteers led by Lieutenant Michael Malone held out against a far greater number of British soldiers arriving from Dún Laoghaire. This book examines this battle and other events surrounding the Rising, and features the only written account by a British army officer of the executions at Kilmainham gaol in the aftermath of the Rising.