“Wheeler informed me they wanted to make Gallagher vice president, so I said I had no objection, though I don’t think much of him for the post, & they wanted me to be financial see, but I repelled the idea.”
WEEK 40: (1st – 9th July 1918)
“This was the day French’s proclamation of Sinn Féin, the G.L., Cumann na mBan & the Volunteers as dangerous societies appeared in the press. I went to the court house a.d. to see if I could get in to see George Murphy’s trial, & on the way I met Mrs Callender with her 2 little daughters Margaret & Ita.”
WEEK 36: (3rd – 9th June 1918)
“There were crowds looking on everywhere, half of whom ought to have been in the procession. The large room was packed, & Miss Bloxham spoke well & not at too great length. I didn’t do myself much credit, but I was received on rising to speak with an enthusiasm that astonished me.”
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)…”
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.”
WEEK 70: (3rd – 9th February 1919)
“Before that some of us were sitting round the fire in 6 with the Countess, and Mrs Gallagher brought in a reporter & a big Canadian Khaki soldier – whom she & he wished to introduce to the Countess, but behold, she wouldn’t shake hands with him. I think it was great cheek to bring him there, but Miss Power of the Cove, & probably Mrs Gallagher thought she was very severe.”
WEEK 5: (29th Oct – 4th November 1917)
He also talked about the trade unions, how he got Louise Bennett to organise one among his laundrygirls & how surprised she was at such a request from an employer, & how the Magdalen asylums injure other laundries, having no wages to pay & so being able to undercut”.