Note from rebel participant in the Easter Rising
The note reads: ‘Dear Mother, we had to surrender so we march to Phoneix [sic] Park, don’t forget to pray us’. A partially decipherable name and address is given on the reverse: ‘Matthew [ ], 12 Great Longford St, Dublin, off Aungier St.’ The item was found within an envelope annotated: ‘Farewell letter to His mother of a soldier of the I.R.A. who fought for Ireland in the Rising of Easter Week, 1916’.
Details
- Level of description
- Item
- Date
- May 1916
- Reference
- 5
- Extent and medium
- 2 pp; Manuscript
- Scope and content
- The note reads: ‘Dear Mother, we had to surrender so we march to Phoneix [sic] Park, don’t forget to pray us’. A partially decipherable name and address is given on the reverse: ‘Matthew [ ], 12 Great Longford St, Dublin, off Aungier St.’ The item was found within an envelope annotated: ‘Farewell letter to His mother of a soldier of the I.R.A. who fought for Ireland in the Rising of Easter Week, 1916’.
- Location of originals
- Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) at https://repository.dri.ie/catalog/x346fb230
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > The Papers of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. > 1916 Rising
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435 Dear Mother we have to surrender as we march to Ohoneiz Park don't forget to pray for