Wednesday, April 26, 1916
Sunny
Correspondence (0)
Gap in Correspondence
No surviving record of correspondence for this date. The Archive continues through witness accounts and official records.
Archive Silence
Map Unavailable
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H.H. Asquith
No correspondence or official record found.
Map Unavailable
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Venetia Stanley
Location unknown.
Official Register
1916-04-26Top News
Daily Edition
HMS Helga shelled Liberty Hall in Dublin as street fighting continued during the Easter Rising.. Irish pacifist Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was executed at Portobello Barracks.
Cabinet Council
NO SESSION
No Minutes
Parliament
IN SESSION
>>Topics: Public debate following Secret Session
Witness Observations
Cynthia Asquith
"Real divine, piping-hot summer's day... Letter from Bluetooth saying Mr Asquith revealed no secrets... and that the situation in Ireland is appalling—the railway and the Post Office in the hands of the rebels and Dublin Castle besieged."