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Reference:
Date:
PR69/04
17 Aug 1923
Title: Level:
Letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne
item
Extent:
4pp plus envelope
Scope and Content: MS. letter from 'Andy', Andrew O'Sullivan (d22 Nov 1923), IRA anti-Treaty prisoner, No.4 Wing, City Gaol, [Sundays Well], Cork, to 'Dear Kit', Miss Catherine Byrne, 110 Main Street, Mallow, county Cork. Recounts in deliberately humorous language the circumstances of his move from the Courthouse cells to the City Gaol. '...I had just begun to settle down in the enjoyment of the sumptuous suite provided by my friends in the Courthouse bastille when they suggested a change to the more respectable environment of suburbia....they sent a Rolls Royce and a bevy of aides-de- camp... I was waited on by a deputation of officers who representing our Old Tan time loved comrade Dick Mulcahy....made me an illuminated address stating his satisfaction in knowing I had been guilty of no military offence. Reference: PR69/05 Date: 11 Sep 1923 Title: Letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne Level: item Extent: 4pp plus envelope Scope and Content: MS. letter from 'Andy', Andrew O'Sullivan (d22 Nov 1923), IRA anti-Treaty prisoner, No.4 Wing, Female Prison, Cork (City Gaol, Sundays Well), to 'Dear Kit', Miss Catherine Byrne, 110 Main Street, Mallow, county Cork. Thanks her for the letter and parcel. Sends his regards to 'all at 110' and to other friends and cousins. Notes that 'there is quite a crowd here now as all political prisoners in the County Gaol were brought here the day after C O'Callaghan Ballyclough and P Healy Millstreet were released. A prisoner named Mossy O'Brien was seriously wounded in the head in his cell today by a shot fired at the window by a sentry...'. Reference: PR69/06 Date: 24 Oct 1923 Title: Letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne Level: item Extent: 2pp Scope and Content: MS. letter from 'Andy', Andrew O'Sullivan (d22 Nov 1923), IRA anti-Treaty prisoner, cell D.3.4, Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin, to 'Dear Kit', Miss Catherine Byrne, 110 Main Street, Mallow, county Cork. He trusts that she has got over her 'burn', he heard of it coming up (to Dublin). Writes that there are nearly 200 of us here in hunger strike, they are on day 11, with no letters or parcels allowed, 'We are out for unconditional release and every man of us will go out free and unconditionally or in his coffin....we hear the hymns and Rosary of the dear Dublin girls outside the walls every night'. He is as strong as when they started but 1 and a half stones lighter. Dick Willis is every bit as strong...He is a few cells from me.....They don't know either of us here so you must not write as it would never get us. We refuse to give our names and they dont know some of our best leaders..... An Poblacht Abú- Freedom or Death. Andy.' Note on page 1 'This is a secret note by a secret route...'. Reference: PR69/07 Date: 2 Nov 1923 Title: Letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne
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