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Location: Dublin City.
Subject: Single page from the diary of Michael Healy, stained glass artist and founder of An Túr Gloine. Healy comments on several groups of people searching for food and fuel, as well as noting looters with goods as he looks on from his front window. He comments on the constant stream of people heading towards a hospital, heavy firing throughout the day and the night and how crowds of men, women and children are retreating from the streets as the soldiers fire over head. Healy witnesses a soldier being carried away on a stretcher and an old woman who was accidently shot also. He says that people have become indifferent to what is going on as there are boys playing football on the street. Healy describes the end of the day and finished his diary entry with “The streets are deserted and no lights appear as darkness sets in. No sound is heard but that of firing; and the sky in the distance is lighted up by burning buildings.”