Letter from Austin Stack to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

Letter from Austin Stack, prisoner no. 148, Manchester Prison, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., thanking the ‘friars of Church St.’ for the interest they have shown in their incarcerated ‘fellow countrymen and women’. Reference is also made to their prison conditions and to prisoner Fionán Lynch. With cover. The letter reads: ‘Your letter (which was written on the day following our removal from Belfast) was sent on after me to this place and I received it on the 3rd. I should not have got it at all

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Level of description: Item
Date: 9 May 1919
Reference: 17
Extent and medium: 2 pp; Manuscript
Scope and content: Letter from Austin Stack, prisoner no. 148, Manchester Prison, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., thanking the ‘friars of Church St.’ for the interest they have shown in their incarcerated ‘fellow countrymen and women’. Reference is also made to their prison conditions and to prisoner Fionán Lynch. With cover. The letter reads: ‘Your letter (which was written on the day following our removal from Belfast) was sent on after me to this place and I received it on the 3rd. I should not have got it at all in Belfast the way things were there. Of course we deem it good of you to think of us in this way but this is only what I should expect of you and the other Friars of Church Street and I hope that we may prove worthy of the interest in us shown by our fellow countrymen and women. There are ten of us here (including Fionán Lynch whom you know). We are devitalised of course after fourteen weeks solitary confinement in Belfast, but otherwise we are fairly well. A month hence I expect to be fit again with God’s help. Our good Capuchin fathers will ever be kindly remembered by the Irish prisoners and their friends, God bless you … Aibhistín de Staic’.
Repository: Irish Capuchin Archives
Context: Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > The Papers of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. > Correspondence > Correspondence with Republican Prisoners

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People

May(2)
Stack(1)

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Belfast(3)

Sample passages

May 9th
And I hope that we may prove worthy of
C. Stack

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Page 1

In replying to this letter, please write on the envelope:- Number 148 Name C. Stack Marchester Prison May 9th 1919. A diary dil Your letter (which was written on the day following our removal from Belfast) was sent on after me to this place, and I received it on the 3rd. I should not have got it at all in Belfast the way things were there. Of course we deem it good of you to think of us in this way but this is only what I would expect of you and the other Friers of Burch St. And I hope that we may prove worthy of the interest in us shown by our fellow countrymen and women. There are ten of us here (including Frierian bynch whom you know). We are devotalised of course after fourteen weeks solitary confinement in Belfast, but otherwise we are fairly well. A month enclosed I expect to be fit again with God's help. Our good Caperchin fathers will ever be kindly remembered by the Dish prisoners and their friends. God bless you trye, lemey mor one, so iapa Arbigerin de Scare