Later O’Farrell was given the job of conveying news of the surrender to outposts including Boland’s Mill. What can be seen of her is often edited out of the surrender photograph – a metaphor for some for how women have been erased from the 1916 narrative. In a photograph of this moment, Elizabeth O’Farrell’s skirt and feet are visible beside Pearse. Afterwards, Pearse himself went out to surrender in person to General Lowe.
O’Farrell was the person Patrick Pearse sent out from Moore Street to deliver the surrender document on Saturday April 29th. Elizabeth O’Farrell, a Cumann na mBan member born in Dublin in 1884, was stationed at the GPO during the Rising, where she attended to the wounded including James Connolly.
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