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During the Rising, Lieutenant Markievicz was appointed second in command to Michael Mallin in St Stephen's Green.

She supervised the setting-up of barricades as the Rising began and was in the middle of the fighting all around Stephen's Green, wounding a British army sniper.

Inspired by newsreel footage from the Western Front, they initially began to dig trenches in the Green.

British fire from the rooftops of adjacent tall buildings, including the Shelbourne Hotel, however, soon convinced them of the folly of this tactic, and they withdrew to the adjacent Royal College of Surgeons.