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Letter to Patrick Pearse, Hon. Secretary, Aeridheacht Committee, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin, from Seán Mac Aodha (Seán Heuston), Irish Volunteers “D” Company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade, 5 Blackhall Street, Dublin, re a drill competition.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, Tilbury, Kilkenny, re outfits for his two nephews.

Letter to Patrick Pearse, Turlough, Rosmuck, County Galway, from Thomas F. O’Connell, solicitor, 34 Kildare Street, Dublin. The letter refers to arrears of rent due on the Hermitage in Rathfarnham. It reads ‘Whatever arrangement may in the future be considered as to leaving you in possession for the present in [the] Hermitage as tenant at a lower rent, this must not be allowed to interfere with your obligation to pay the rent for the past half year’.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from Tomás de Róiste, Conrad na Gaelige, Tipperary. Refers to an enclosure for £1 for ‘expenses incurred by your recent visit to Tipperary’. Annotation on the reverse of the letter in hand of Pearse reads ‘[Seosamh mac Cathmhaoil], possibly Joseph Campbell, Loretto Cottage, Castlereagh Road, Belfast’.

Letter to Patrick Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, from W.H. Dunne, solicitor, the National Bank Limited, re the payment of £241 due to the bank.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from Captain [James O’Sullivan?], Wexford Brigade, Irish Volunteers. The letter to various meeting with Volunteer officers in County Wexford.

Letter to Terence MacSwiney (Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne), 4 Belgrave Place, Cork, from Tadhg [Ó Donnchadha]. With cover.

Letter to Tim Healy from various republican internees asking him intercede in a dispute with prison authorities. The manuscript provides background to the dispute. The letter is in two distinctive hands and is (copy) signed by ‘Michael Staines, Head Leader; James Murphy, leader, no. 1 room; Edward A. Morkan, leader, no. 2 room; R.J. Mulcahy, leader, no. 3 room; Thomas D. Sinnott, Leader no. 4 Room’. The letter reads:
‘Recently the military authorities in charge of the Camp here have adopted such an attitude of consistently vindictive injustice towards us that we are reluctantly compelled to believe that there must be some ulterior motive behind it. … We can do very little to help ourselves, cut off as we are from all the world, and strictly prohibited – officially – from sending out a single complaint’.
In September 1917 Healy acted as counsel for the family of the dead Sinn Féin hunger striker Thomas Ashe. He was one of the few King’s Counsel to provide legal services to members of Sinn Féin in various legal proceedings in both Ireland and England after the 1916 Rising. This included acting for those illegally interned in 1916 in Frongoch in North Wales.

A letter to William Frederick Paul Stockley (1859-1943) from Conn Mac Murchadha, Director, Sinn Féin Re-organising Committee, 15 College Green, Dublin, re an invitation to attend a public meeting. It is noted that that the ‘object of the meeting is to launch publicly the Republican civilian movement by reorganising Sinn Féin, the only Republican political organisation which is definitely pledged to the support of the Irish Republic’.

Letters from Éamon de Valera, Sean F. Lemass, Seán T. O’Kelly, Oscar Traynor and John A. Costello concerning offers to defray the expenses involved in the repatriation and later accepting invitations to attend the Mass and re-internment of Fathers Albert and Dominic at Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork.