Voices of the Rising - Ep 17 My sweetheart of the hawthorn hedges by National Library of Ireland published on 2016-03-15T18:32:28Z This is the 17th and final episode in a series of audio stories from the Easter 1916 archives of the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. The stories are narrated by Katherine McSharry, Head of Outreach with the National Library of Ireland and Irish voice artist Niall O Sioradáin. In this episode, Niall O' Sioradáin reads from the last letter of Eamonn Ceannt, who was one of the seven signatories of the proclamation of the Irish Republic. He was executed in Kilmainham gaol on the 8th of May 1916. This is the letter he wrote to his wife Áine on the morning of his execution. Genre Storytelling
