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Four Soldiers In Hiding

On April 24^th Easter Monday four British soldiers were making their way along the River Liffey quays towards Sean Heuston's garrison at the Mendicity when they were attacked by a group of 'hardened' rebels. The soldiers frightened and scared made their way to a stables on Usher's Lane where they hid. 

They were protected by the Griffin family in their hayloft where the matriarch of the house provided the soldiers with civilian clothes and they made their escape back to the Royal Barracks. Aidan Lynch then grabbed the abandoned British rifles and handed them over to the rebel garrison of Edward Daly in the Four Courts. 

Lynch was arrested and deported but was released in July 1916. He felt aggreived and attacked members of the Griffin family including the head man of the house John Griffin whom he believed had turned him into the authorities for handing the rifles to the rebels. Aidan's brother James in turn attacked John Griffin who was then defended by  James Griffin of 55 St Mary’s Lane and Lawrence Quinn of 172 Church Street who were charged with assaulting Aidan Lynch at Usher’s Lane on July 22^nd. James Lynch brother of Aidan charged with assaulting John Griffin, father of James

Corporal James Brady of Dublin Fusiliers relayed that equipment was taken by Lynch and handed to the rebels. Griffin and Quinn were fined twenty schillings while James Lynch was sentenced to a month in prison

Book Launch 2016

100 Years in The Making

Cáit Mhic Ionnraic (left) daughter of John 'Blimey' O'Connor

On April 25th 2016 exactly 100 years to the day since rebel forces during the 1916 Easter Rising broadcast across the world, the descendents of those brave volunteers gathered in the Grand Central Bar on O'Connell Street, Dublin to reenact those historic broadcasts. The Grand Central Bar was Reis's Chambers in 1916 the location of the radio rebel radio station.

The Morse message being reenacted 100 years later

Organized by Brian Greene and Dennis Gamble the event brought together the relatives of John Blimey O'Connor, Fergus O'Kelly and Joseph Plunkett, amateur radio broadcasters like Pat Herbert and Tony Breatnach of the Hurdy Gurdy Museum in Howth, students from the media department at DCU, historians and raconteurs with myself who delivered a talk from my book Rebel Radio about those historic innovative transmissions.

Seoirse Plunkett, a nephew of Joseph Plunkett brought a old vintage spark transmitter, while Tony tapped out the Morse messages dispatched by the operators a century a ago.

An emotional and wonderful night with ceol agus craic.

Eddie Bohan & Fergus O'Kelly grandson of Fergus O'Kelly

Brian Greene interviewing Joseph Plunkett's nephew

The O'Connor relatives posing with the Plunkett spark transmitter