Note to Commandant Éamon de Valera
A note sent to Commandant Éamon de Valera during the 1916 Rising. The pencilled message refers to communication being established with an outpost. The note provides a time of 11.30pm. An indecipherable signature of a captain is attached. It adds that ‘They are protected by the River Tolka’. An endorsement (in ink) at the top of the page affirms ‘shortly after I got a message that all was well / outposts have begun to mean anything’.
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- Level of description
- Item
- Date
- Apr. 1916
- Reference
- 3
- Extent and medium
- 1 p.; manuscript
- Scope and content
- A note sent to Commandant Éamon de Valera during the 1916 Rising. The pencilled message refers to communication being established with an outpost. The note provides a time of 11.30pm. An indecipherable signature of a captain is attached. It adds that ‘They are protected by the River Tolka’. An endorsement (in ink) at the top of the page affirms ‘shortly after I got a message that all was well / outposts have begun to mean anything’.
- 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. > Commandant Thomas Cornelius Hunter and Commandant Éamon de Valera notes during the 1916 Rising
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Extracted Mentions
People, places, and terms identified via handwriting recognition and named entity recognition.
People
- Murphy(1)
Sample passages
- Commertion with Murphy
Full Transcript (OCR, 1 pages)
Machine-generated OCR transcript. Handwritten material may contain recognition errors.
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what this parent to show her able shoots that find out yet - wear out to mean after so many weeks have begun all pots simple. Home Established Commertion with Murphy Cut from they are Pretended by Process Talk a B Committing Cpt 11-3-PM