Volunteers vacate Stephen’s Green to RCSI 1916

#OnThisDay 1916 Gun battles from the streets to the rooftops of Dublin. At St. Stephen’s Green, the rebels had to pull back into the Royal College of Surgeons as machine gun fire from the British Army held Shelbourne Hotel raked their positions in the park.

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