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Location: Dublin City; Northumberland Street, Beggars Bush, Grand Canal Street, Boland’s Mill, Distillery. Subject: Single page from the diary of Michael Healy, stained glass artist and founder of An Túr Gloine. Entry begins on Pembroke Street at 9.30 and Healy describes how he prepared an easel to paint a centre light (for a commissioned window) for the third time and partly painted it. He then goes on to say that he picked out the glass for the second light of the cork window. Healy recounts that he heard that Miss Geddes (Wilhelmina) is due back in the afternoon and that ‘Miss O’Brien’ has been sick. He writes that the weather is fine and that he left he shop at 3pm. Healy goes on to say that after dinner he went as far as Northumberland Road and he noticed the destruction in the vicinity after the battle. He then writes that he came around by Beggars Bush and up towards Grand Canal Street and then down by the back of the distillery near Boland’s Mill where he comments on the state of the distillery and how the masonry work had been torn out. Healy notes that the mill (Boland’s Mill) showed no signs of having been bombarded but he writes that there was a house which stood at the railway bridge that crosses the road leading to Grand Canal Street Bridge which, he writes “bears countless bullet marks all over it.” Healy recalls how ‘Phil’ called that night and he told Healy how he had buried his sister that morning. He finishes the entry by saying that the laundry had not arrived yet and he had to buy a collar. People of Note: Wilhelmina Geddes, ‘Miss O’Brien’, Phil.