Dalkey Diary 1916, Sugar Ration Card

"At 2pm on 24 April (Easter Monday) 1916, my grandmother, Kathleen King (nee Murphy), received a phone-call at the family home in Dalkey from her brother Pat in his drapery shop on Merrion Row to say "The Rising has begun - bullets are flying".... She immediately began to record events as they unfolded for the next 12 days in Dalkey, Kingstown and Dublin, providing an eye-witness, contemporaneous account of the impact of The Rising on ordinary people across the country - the ensuing county-wide Military Rule and curfews, the paucity of food, the skirmishes and arrests locally, the changing public mood, the rumour-mill and intense interest in newspaper reports, etc. It is a treasure trove of local social history, and a window into how life was disrupted 100 years ago. Amongst her copious papers, we also discovered fascinating artefacts such as her huband's Sugar Ration Card (attached), letters from Arbour Hill prison in 1921 when he was interned, a denial of access signed by the Adjutant of Dublin Castles, Playbills from the Abbey and Irish National Theatres (where she acted)."