Letter from Charles Lynch to Fr. Senan Moynihan
A letter from Charles Lynch, 29 Antrobus Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. confirming the receipt of an edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and referring to the copy letters he recently sent to the friar regarding his experiences during the 1916 Rising. Lynch asks whether his letters will be published in the ‘Annual’. He writes ‘The main reason I sent it was because I read various histories of that event and all differed substantially from the truth, and I thought as a matter of histor
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- 4 Oct. 1947
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- 3 pp; manuscript
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- A letter from Charles Lynch, 29 Antrobus Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. confirming the receipt of an edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and referring to the copy letters he recently sent to the friar regarding his experiences during the 1916 Rising. Lynch asks whether his letters will be published in the ‘Annual’. He writes ‘The main reason I sent it was because I read various histories of that event and all differed substantially from the truth, and I thought as a matter of history, the truth so far as I saw it should be known to all’.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Letters of Charles Lynch relating to the 1916 Rising
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- 29 Antrobus St London S.W.1. 4th October 1947
- Charles M. Lynch
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29 Antrobus St London S.W.1. 4th October 1947 Rev. Fathers Seman The Caprechin Annual Office Capel Street Dublin. Eire Dear Father Seman. Some time in 1945 I wrote and sent you — "Letters from Dublin incidents of the 'Irish Rebellion Easter Week 1916. I asked for principle of publication the pageant of one copy of the Annual. I got the copy of the annual for I was as far as ever from the knowledge of the fact of publication, as the copy sent was on sack. had, naturally a soft-spot in my heart — for Ireland, all of it. All all I have always suspected my setting. Faithfully yours Charles M. Lynch (No. Cips) number, I had not specified a city of the Annual containing a street, I thought of obviously was near. I felt no annoyance, as if course I should have specified the postmaster Annual & near. As a mere matter of university would agree between by letting me know if the street was ear published in your Annual. The main reason I set it was because I had read various histories of that earth and all differed substantially from the Irish, and I thought as a matter of history the work so far as I saw it should be known to all. And, of course I always