
From the Irish Independent, 15 May 1916:
“A FOUR COURTS PRISONER
Captain RK Brereton, JP, Ladywell, Athlone, relating his experiences in Dublin during the rising, states that he motored through the Phoenix Park on Easter Monday evening, and was taken prisoner by the Sinn Feiners at a barricade near the Four Courts, being informed that “war had been declared with the British;” that “three contingents of Germans were landing in Dublin” and “that the Irish regiments had refused to turn