Updated / Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021
13:23
A British machine gun located in the Iveagh Buildings on Bull Alley sprayed the building with bullets, shattering windows and damaging books.
Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh s Library, writes about Changed Utterly?, a new online exhibition which traces the experience of minorities during the Irish Revolution.
Founded in the Liberties of Dublin in 1707 by an Anglican clergyman, Marsh’s Library was widely associated in the popular mind with the Union between Britain and Ireland. During Easter Week 1916, its location beside Jacobs’ biscuit factory and Kevin Street police station meant that its treasures were in real danger of being destroyed. Some of the most striking items in ‘Changed Utterly?’ are the books hit by rifle and machinegun fire during the Rising.