Seamus Fitzgerald Descriptive List (Ref. PR6)

PR6/

File relating to the article "East Cork's story for 1920" submitted by Fitzgerald to the Capuchin Annual Includes several drafts of the article which relates the major activities of the 4th Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade during the struggle for Independence. 14 items 63 [1916] Typescript list of men from Cork City and County departed after the Rising. (Extracted from lists published in the Irish Times Handbook. 5pp 64 [ ] Tow MSS. of speeches by Seamus Fitzgerald giving a personal account of events leading up to and immediately after the Truce. 38pp

IV Mo Sceal Fein

65 [ ] MSS notes by Seamus Fitzgerald on Cobh Volunteers. Also MSS. document "Mo Sceal Fein" detailing his involvement with events leading up to and following Easter 1916. He speaks of his own arrest, when on transfer to Cork prison he was jeered at by a crowd "of women and girls of the not too lower class". His trecht in prison and the dreadful solitude of a prison cell, and his transferral to Frongoch. 61pp

Donations of Memorabilia

66 19 March 1966

Letters from D. O'Donoghue, Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork, to Fitzgerald acknowledging receipt of a Volunteer Uniform Tunic. 2pp

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