“I went to the Coliseum to see Her Barrier was objectionable enough to complain to the theatre committee about – Miss Doyle had been telling D. – it was awful. It was rather beastly, & such rot! But there was a comic one before it where three men were killed & went to hell & were shut into a pit of fire by devils with huge red hot pitchforks, which was lovely.”
WEEK 78: (5th – 11th May 1919)
“This was the day the military motor lorry broke down on the road & was left in the avenue with no leave asked, and when they wanted men to help push it they could get none because all the men in the neighbourhood are Sinn Féiners. I don’t believe Waterford people even if they thought themselves Sinn Féiners would have strength of mind for that. “