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May 27, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 35: (27th – 2nd June 1918)

“I went to see the carstand Powers, & they took me to evening devotions at St John’s, & then I went to a Gaelic League Committee. We had a great fight as to whether a rule shd be made barring women out of the premises, except at meetings, during the summer, in order to keep out some bratty little girls who romp & flirt there at night.”

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May 20, 2018October 24, 2018

WEEK 34: (20th – 26th May 1918)

“We had Mrs Callender & Mr Coates to tea, & each of them drank 3 cups of tea with a lot of sugar in each. I don’t see how they expect people’s allowance to last under such treatment; they ought to bring sugar if they require it. He showed us a photo of himself with his wife & child; the wife is Russian, a chemist & a writer of pamphlets, & very plain.”

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May 13, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 33: (13th – 19th May 1918)

“I visited the carstand Powers a.d. and found that Juley had been away in Wales visiting a sick brother. She had a lot of political talk in trains and things. I went to the election committee in the evening, Whittle, 5 male heads of wards, & Miss Skeffington & me. J. K. Walsh, W. Doyle, D. Grant, J. Wylie & I can’t remember the other.”

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May 6, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 32: (6th – 12th May 1918)

“C. was disgusted with the old men, especially F. Pim. Janie is very sure conscription is coming, & seems to have the worst possible opinion of the government’s motives.”

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April 29, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 31: (29th April – 5th May 1918)

“I read out the Constitution and talked about the work that should be done & the way C. na. mb. women had distinguished themselves in the rising (which frightened 2 or 3 suspicious characters out of joining)…”

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April 22, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 30: (22nd -28th April 1918)

“There was another first aid meeting in the evening; Miss Connolly, who was to teach, came & told the girls what they were to bring. There was a Cumann na mBan branch being started at the Volunteer hall, with Mrs Power & Miss Doyle at the head of it.”

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April 15, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 29: (15th – 21st April 2018)

“Bro P. told us funny stories of his objections to women coming there with low necks & “no sleeves” as he said, but I don’t believe it. They may meet the boys & young teachers, & its “not fair” to these. They shouldn’t go about anywhere with really low necks & no sleeves, but what lumps of sex-feeling pure & simple men & boys would have to be endangered by that.”

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April 8, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 28: (8th – 14th April 1918)

“I think it was this day the conscription bill was known to have passed the first reading. I went to town in the afternoon, to Jennings & then to Miss O’Shea, where I had to wait ages in the shop talking to her husband about conscription. Then I went to the hotel & found Kitty was up again but still set against going to Mt Melleray, so Mrs Power decided she wd go with me on Saturday.”

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April 1, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 27: (1st – 7th April 1918)

“Kitty & Tash paid a visit in the afternoon and gave a terrible account of life in the hotel on the last day & night of the election. It was something between a barrack & a fortress, Volunteers everywhere, especially in the yard, to guard against attack, and wounded men constantly […] being brought in.”

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March 25, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 26: (25th – 31st March 1918)

“I seem to be alone in not having found any branch of education enjoyable or really interesting except history; & its well no one else is like that. They talk of being let learn what interests you & dropping the rest, after 15 or so; very little I’d have learned on that principle, and very little did learn.”

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