Letters from Tom Barry

Letters from Tom Barry, 64 St. Patrick’s Street, Cork, to Bartholmew ‘Batt’ Murphy. The letters refer to an event organised by the West Cork Michael Collins Memorial Committee in Sam’s Cross, Collins’s birthplace, and later to the death and funeral of the veteran Irish republican Tom Hales. The file also includes a flier from the memorial committee.

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Date
1964-1966
Reference
190
Extent and medium
4 items; manuscript and printed
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Letters from Tom Barry, 64 St. Patrick’s Street, Cork, to Bartholmew ‘Batt’ Murphy. The letters refer to an event organised by the West Cork Michael Collins Memorial Committee in Sam’s Cross, Collins’s birthplace, and later to the death and funeral of the veteran Irish republican Tom Hales. The file also includes a flier from the memorial committee.
General note
For biographical information on Tom Barry (1897-1980) see https://www.dib.ie/biography/barry-thomas-bernadine-tom-a0472
Repository
Irish Capuchin Archives
Context
Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

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  • MICHAEL COLLINS WEST CORK MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
  • MICHAEL COLLINS
  • Crossing to Dublin in the Spring of 1916, he served in the G.P.O. during Easter Week, and was subsequently interned in Frongoch, being released at the General Amnesty in December o…
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PHONE: 22/190 64 ST. PATRICK'S STREET, CORK. 19. 5. 1965 Dear Batt, Please excuse the delay in my reply to your very kind letter about the Michael Cullins memorial, I have had a fairly heavy operation but I am now Y. G. on the road back. I was also invited with letters similar to yours and it will take another two months to reply to them. It was a great day on Easter Sunday at Sams Cross. The crowd was enormous; the weather kindly, and best of all was the sight of hundreds of the veterans, divided by the Civil strife marching together once more. There was not a word about parties or politics and the only reference to the civil strife was mines when I appealed for the burial of past dissensions. Re Y. D., County Counsellor or Senator of any party were allowed in the platform and the organising committee did a marvelous job. Everything was perfect. However, your tribute to me is hardly failly deserved. Even during the Civil war, I spoke of Much's great services to Ireland and I paid him the same tribute eighteen years ago in Gweild Days in Ireland. Only artest and spoke as I saw the truth about the man. Anyway thanks again for your kind and generous letter. With all good wishes to you & yours. Sincerely Your Barry

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