Michael Mallin sent a small party of ICA under Sergeant Joe Doyle to occupy and delay the advance of troops from Portobello Barracks (now Cathal Brugha Barracks) some hundreds of yards across the Grand Canal to the south. Doyle and his men were dislodged later that day. Published in Dublin and the “Sinn Féin” Rising, Wilson Hartnell & Co., 1916