Letter from Éamonn Duggan to his fiancée May Kavanagh, written from Portland Prison,
1916 June 16.
Duggan acknowledges the efforts Kavanagh made to see him throughout the Easter Rising and the difficulties of their continued separation, he praises her for her constancy and mentions the impact the rebellion had on the civilian population of Dublin. He also writes of his continuing good health, hopes of a ‘general amnesty to all political prisoners’, his journey from Ireland to Portland Prison, entitlements for writing and receiving letters and undertaking prison work - ‘I have learned to scrub floors, whitewash, sew on buttons + brighten tins + I am a dab at making G.P.O. mail bags’. Reference is also made to their mutual friends and her visits to the nuns near Church Street who assisted the Irish Volunteers during the Rising. The letter is written on prison paper, and includes Duggan's name and prison number and the rules governing all written communications with prisoners.
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Notes: | Duggan was a member of the Irish Volunteers and fought at the North Dublin Union and later Fr. Mathew Hall during the Easter Rising. Physical description: 1 item (4 pages). more |
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Letter from Éamonn Duggan to his fiancée May Kavanagh, written from Portland Prison,
1916 June 16.
In Collection: | Éamonn Duggan Papers, 1913-1968. |
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Description: | Duggan acknowledges the efforts Kavanagh made to see him throughout the Easter Rising and the difficulties of their continued separation, he praises her for her constancy and mentions the impact the rebellion had on the civilian population of Dublin. He also writes of his continuing good health, hopes of a ‘general amnesty to all political prisoners’, his journey from Ireland to Portland Prison, entitlements for writing and receiving letters and undertaking prison work - ‘I have learned to scrub floors, whitewash, sew on buttons + brighten tins + I am a dab at making G.P.O. mail bags’. Reference is also made to their mutual friends and her visits to the nuns near Church Street who assisted the Irish Volunteers during the Rising. The letter is written on prison paper, and includes Duggan's name and prison number and the rules governing all written communications with prisoners. |
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Language: | English |
Extent: | 1 item (4 pages). |
Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 49,835/3/3
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |
Rights: | Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland. |