Nancy Wyse Power's adventures on the Dublin-Cork train in Easter Week, 1916 - for Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to The Lost Dispatch by Lourdes Mackey above.
Nancy Wyse Power stepped on to the train at Kingsbridge. It was the afternoon of Ash Wednesday, 1916, and earlier that day, Bulmer Hobson had asked her to convey a message to Terence MacSwiney in Cork. Though a member of the executive of Cumann na mBan, this was Nancy's first dispatch and she was intent on a faultless delivery. Anyone in touch with the Irish Volunteers knew that matters were heading to a climax, and Nancy felt proud to be actively involved. Patriotism was in her blood...
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