Lambe's (Now Meagher's) Ballybough

Lambe’s public house on Richmond Road now Meagher’s of Ballybough was seized by rebels attempting to halt the advance of British troops from a training camp on Bull Island towards the centre of the city. They held the pub until they were ordered to fall back to the GPO

According to the Witness Statement of Harry Colley

       "I had discovered that men from my own Company under Frank Henderson and Oscar Traynor were             holding a house over Gilbey's at the corner of Fairview Strand which commanded the approach from             Dollymount and also Ballybough Bridge.

        As well as Gilbey's, our men also occupied Lambe's public house on Richmond Road (now               

        Meagher's). Frank Henderson was in charge of this outpost. A man named Sean Kerr was             

        Quartermaster and cook. I remember we commandeered bread from a baker's cart and a sheep from  

        an adjacent butcher's. Scouts on bicycles were thrown out along the Howth Road and through 

        Drumcondra. About 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening (Tuesday) we got orders to fall-in. We took with us 

        all spare arms, ammunition, equipment and food. We were paraded outside Gilbey's on Fairview 

        Strand and marched over Ballybough Bridge towards Summerhill."

 One of the barmen in Lambe's on that Easter Monday was John Gavan a member of  “F” Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade. The 24 year old surrendered with his comrades and was interned after the Rising in Stafford Jail and the North Camp Frongoch until he was released August 1916.