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Dear Mother and Father


        I know I haven't written back in a long while.  I'm sorry for the delay, but we have been very busy due to all the battles going on in Europe.  I am an ambulance drive for the British Red Cross and I have been driving to the battle fields retrieving wounded soldiers.  It's a hard job to see all these men like this, but it is a job that someone had to do.  As of now I'm back in Britain on a short leave, but ill be head back to Germany within a few days.  We are slowly taking the war, but the Germans are fighting back hard.  The trenches go for miles and many people have been dieing from poisonous gases.  We do wear gas masks but for some people they don't work or they aren't put on in time.  I hope to come back soon but i don't know how long the war will go on for.  Please write back as soon as you can.    3/5/1917


Desmond

Easter Rebellion Ireland

            The Easter Rising also known as the Easter Rebellion Ireland.  The rebellion started on Monday 24 April 1916 and lasted for 6 days.  It was Organized by seven members of the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.  Many people joined the Irish Citizen Army which they then seized key locations in Dublin and claimed the Irish Republic independent from Britain. 

            The Rising was suppressed after heavy fighting, and its leaders were court-martialled and executed.  Support for republicanism continued to rise in Ireland as a result of the ongoing war in Europe and the Middle East. In December 1918 republicans won 73 seats out of 105 in the 1918 General Election in the British Parliament. In the total of 6 days 254 people where killed and 2,217 people where wounded.