Letters from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

Letters from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., asking for a ‘national novena to the Sacred Heart’. She declares that she has ‘had a letter from Dev this morning. They have had no Sunday mass since they left Ireland. He served Mass on Corpus Christi but that was the only day they had Mass’. She relays De Valera’ request that luxury items such as sweets should not be sent to republican prisoners and suggests that ‘some little committee could be formed to collect the money which would

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Level of description: File
Date: 24 May 1918 + (c.1918)
Reference: 10
Extent and medium: 3 items; Manuscript
Scope and content: Letters from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., asking for a ‘national novena to the Sacred Heart’. She declares that she has ‘had a letter from Dev this morning. They have had no Sunday mass since they left Ireland. He served Mass on Corpus Christi but that was the only day they had Mass’. She relays De Valera’ request that luxury items such as sweets should not be sent to republican prisoners and suggests that ‘some little committee could be formed to collect the money which would otherwise be expended on postage …’. She adds ‘Please don’t let Eamonn’s name be associated with it as I know he would not like his remark about the luxuries to go around. He has a dislike to being considered a vaitin and his remark might be misunderstood’. In the letter of 24 May 1918 she refers to her anxiety over ‘the midnight raid and Saturday’s paper’. She added: ‘Dev is in Gloucester prison. I had a message from the Governor saying to send on some clothes’.
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 Wives and Relations of Republican Prisoners

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Extracted Mentions

People, places, and terms identified via handwriting recognition and named entity recognition.

People

Shee(1)

Places

Shee(1)
Georgia(1)

Sample passages

trust in Shee" that all
trust in Shee" that all
in the Georgia hut am

Full Transcript (OCR, 2 pages)

Machine-generated OCR transcript. Handwritten material may contain recognition errors.

Page 1

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Page 2

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