Chapter Fifty-Five
Fitzhugh never heard back from either Birdell or Nathan. His was not the only report to arrive on their desks, warning them of the imminent uprisings of the Irish, yet neither man acted on this intel. Perhaps it was because Casement had been captured, Germany was clearly no longer interested in backing the Irish, or that the Aud had not delivered the weapons, but the men in charge of Ireland’s defence apparently believed the revolution was over.
They were wrong.
The military council of Shinn Fein met Easter morning to decide what their next step would be. One leader, a man called Eion MacNeill, understood that the combined disasters of the failed attack on the Canadian trenches, the lost Aud shipment, and Casement’s capture meant there was no longer any international
