Surrender Letter
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The Surrender Letter
Copy of letter from PH Pearse that was sent to ensure the surrender of Capt. Paddy Holahan.
Original sold for €700,000 on May 25th, 2005 by Adams Auctioneers, Dublin.
The story of the hand written surrender letters in complicated
The story of the hand written surrender letters in complicated,
a version of the story can be read here.
Another version can be read here
From The Easter Rebellion, Max Caulfield.
“By 10 P.M. some four hundred rebels (including Daly's men from the Four Courts who had by this time surrendered) had been squashed into this small plot of ground. (A small detachment of Daly's men, under Volunteer Patrick Holohan, were cut off in North Brunswick Street and had refused to surrender although, at the urgings of the Capuchin monks of the district, they had agreed to a truce while confirmation of Pearse's order was brought to them). Here, as the night came down and a bitterly cold wind swept Sackville Street, the main body of the rebel army squatted, crushed close together, with ample time to look back on its errors. Fires still smoldered, or burst intermittently into life along the great street. Armored cars rattled past every now and then and there was a constant stream of Red Cross ambulances "gliding by silent as ghosts." At intervals Tommies would gather up rebel arms and trot away with them. An officer, examining a Howth gun, remarked as he fingered a Mauser bullet, "You know, this damn thing would kill a bally elephant!" From the roof of the Rotunda, a machine gun stood trained throughout the night, while a ring of bayonets encircled the plot. The Misses Grenan and Carney, sat on the grass beside John MacDermott and sucked compressed food lozenges he gave them, which "tasted awful."
Father Augustine also played a vital part in securing young Holohan's surrender, thus saving the South Staffords the distasteful task of winkling him out. After interviewing Pearse in Arbour Hill and securing a copy of the surrender order written in the Commander in Chief's own hand, the monk was permitted to pass through the embattled lines to see Holohan. In the face of such a document, the desperate young rebel reluctantly laid down his arms.”
