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Scope and Content: MS. letter from 'Andy', Andrew O'Sullivan (d22 Nov 1923), IRA anti-Treaty prisoner, cell D.3.18, Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin, to 'Dear Kit', Miss Catherine Byrne, 110 Main Street, Mallow, county Cork. It is the 20th day of the hunger strike and he is 'thinking of a suit of ladies attire....I have grown so thin and ladylike'. Mentions Kevin O'Higgins' statement that the strikers will 'take the full consequences of our acts' and their public pledge after holy communion on the 14th October, and their watchword, 'Freedom or Death'. Dick and himself are as well as can be expected. He is acting prisoners O/C (Officer Commanding) as the O/C is very weak. Enquires of the 'bhoys', concerning his possible burial at the republican plot in the new cemetery, Mallow, as an incentive to the next generation. He wants nothing by way of an epitaph on the cross except 'An Poblacht Abú', until a republic is established, '...let my memory be commemorated as thought fit with that of my old chief L. Lynch' (General Liam Lynch). Asks Lizzie Willis to send money to Miss M.O'Neill, 92 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin for cigarettes and chewing gum for Dick '.....She is C. na mban and can get letters and stuff in here...'. Reference: PR69/08 Date: nd [c1922-1923] Title: Postcard from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne Level: item Extent: 1 item Scope and Content: Humourous unsigned postcard [from Andrew O'Sullivan, [?Ballsbridge, Dublin] to 'Miss Kit Byrne', c/o Miss Daly, Tobacconist, Main Street, Mallow, county Cork. Asks, "How are you off for Sugar ?" Reference: PR69/09 Date: Oct 1923 Title: Newspaper clipping re. funeral of Andrew O'Sullivan Level: item Extent: 1 item Scope and Content: Newspaper clipping re. funeral of Andrew O'Sullivan in Mallow Co. Cork, native of Denbawn, Denn, Co. Cavan, agricultural instructor, and Commandant, IRA, died after 40 days hunger -strike. Reference: PR69/10 Date: 9 Aug 1923 Title: TS. transcript of letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne Level: item Extent: 1p Scope and Content: TS. transcript of PR69/1 (with errors). Reference: PR69/11 Date: 16 Aug 1923 Title: TS. transcript of letter from Andy O'Sullivan to Catherine 'Kit' Byrne Level: item Extent: 1p Scope and Content: TS. transcript of PR69/3 (with errors).
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