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Desmond Cornwall
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16 March 1965 Letter to Fitzgerald from his cousin-in-law Desmond Cornwall, Portlaoise, detailing his father's last illness. Recalls in 1916 when DeValera was under sentence of death it was Cornwall's father who pressed the American authorities to act. 2pp
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Joseph Kiely (See also 34)
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10 March 1966 - 22 December 1967 Correspondence between Joseph Kiely, London and Seamus Fitzgerald. Kiely recalls their days as Volunteers in Cobh "They were good old days even though our own people were against us" and has no regrets "after all we did not fight for self- glorification or political advancement but rather for an ideal". 3pp
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Michael Leahy (see also 41)
53 7 March 1935 Letter to Fitzgerald from Michael Leahy in San Pedro discussing Fitzgerald's recollections of their Volunteer days which he plans to discuss more fully on his return to Ireland in April. Mentions he never became an American citizen and is unsure of his passport status. Also letter posted in New Jersey on same trip. 2 items 54 9 June 1969 Copy letter from Seamus Fitzgerald to Michael Leahy enclosing an Extract from a Colonial Office file taken by a friend from the Public Record Office in London which was not to be made public for 75 years after 1916. The extract is from file no. c.o.904/23(4) and records correspondence 13 April 1916 - 4 January 1920 relating D.I. DE Armstrong's surveillance of Cove (Sic) and Haulbowline and especially Seamus (James) and Paddy Fitzgerald and Michael Leahy noting on 9 September 1916 that Seamus "is not
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