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ITEM DESCRIPTIONS
Reference:
Date:
PR69/01
9 Aug 1923
Title: Level:
Letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne
item
Extent:
2pp plus envelope
Scope and Content: MS. letter from 'Andy', Andrew O'Sullivan (d22 Nov 1923), IRA anti-Treaty prisoner, Courthouse Cells, [Washington Street], Cork, to 'Dear Kit', Miss Catherine Byrne, (Cumann na mBan) 110 Main Street, Mallow, county Cork. Thanks Peg and Kit for the letter, Anglo-Celt newspaper, and four packets of 'Lambkins Killarneys' cigarettes. He is glad they enjoyed the 'sports at Nadd', of which he supposes his friend Pat Crowley and his wife Bride were the main organisers. He reflects philosophically and in religious terms on his imprisonment and his future, stating that 'The Gloomy portals of this digs open not to me and here I remain yet. I know not what the mysterious future holds in store and I merely live on in the sure knowledge that God's will work out my future destiny according to his predestined plan...'. The Committee of Investigation adjourned the case and he has heard no more about a trial. Two friends in Cork send them the morning papers. He remarks that '...Danny Boy is going for T.D honours', possibly a reference to the candidacy for T.D. of Daniel Corkery (b1883-d1961) , as an anti-Treatyite for North Cork, in the 1923 general election. Reference: PR69/02 Date: 12 Aug 1923 Title: Letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Peg [Byrne] Level: item Extent: 2pp Scope and Content: MS. letter from 'Andy', Andrew O'Sullivan (d22 Nov 1923), IRA anti-Treaty prisoner, Courthouse Cells, [Washington Street], Cork, to 'Dear Peg', [Miss Peg ?Byrne], [Mallow, county Cork]. He received the note from Kit and the 'joint kind smoking parcel'. Describes in deliberately effusive and humorous language his imprisonment in Cork, including the '...feeling that artists have passed through the portals enroute to a greater home farther west... decorations on the walls are of a truly rustic and wonderfully amateurish style...the interweaving of mottoes, names and other fervently religious inscriptions recall youthful tracings from the Book of Kells...'. Reference: PR69/03 Date: 16 Aug 1923 Title: Letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne Level: item Extent: 2pp plus envelope Scope and Content: MS. letter from 'Andy', Andrew O'Sullivan (d22 Nov 1923), IRA anti-Treaty prisoner, Courthouse Cells, [Washington Street], Cork, to 'Dear Kit', Miss Catherine Byrne, (Cumann na Mban) 110 Main Street, Mallow, county Cork. Thanks her for the 'lovely cake' and kindness since he 'came to his new quarters'. He does not expect to be in the cells much longer. Mentions that the Mallow show is 'going in great guns' and that he well remembers the last show as he carried the brunt of the work and organisation, and for the past 7 years he has officiated as a judge of farm produce at Kilmallock and Newcastle West shows. (Partially illegible/faded)
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