REVIEW: "Cesca's Diary 1913-1916 Where Art and Nationalism Meet," by Hilary PYLE (The Woodfield Press ISBN 0-9534293-7-7, p/b, 45 euros). "She died aged 27, in the great influenza epidemic on October 30th 1918, having married Diarmuid COFFEY that April. Known as Sadhbh TRINSEACH, though christened as Frances Chenevix TRENCH, she learned Irish in the Gaelic League like her sisters and wore her own design of Irish dress, and joined Cumann na mBan - remaining on the most affectionate terms with her brothers who joined the British Army that same year, 1914. She was a prolific artist in oil and pastel of original and commercially reproduced drawings, as well as designing pageants and painting murals. On Easter Monday 1916 she walked into Dublin from her home in Terenure and the next day - having prepared a basket of medical supplies - she cycled to the GPO, made her way in through the front door to her Gaelic League acquaintance - "Mr. PEARSE." He told her, "Our idea was to win Irish freedom." Her fragmentary diaries, on which this part of the book is based, reveal an extraordinary image of the situation in which Dubliners seemed to be held like flies in amber, as that week wore on. This book is expensive, but unique in its text and many illustrations."