Reference code
IE CA CP/1/2/57
Title
Ireland’s War of Independence / Easter Week 1916
Date(s)
- 1970 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
13 pp; Typescript
Name of creator
(1615-2023)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Recollections of the 1916 Rising by Nicholas Laffan titled ‘Ireland’s War of Independence / Easter Week 1916’. It is noted that Laffan was a Captain in G Company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers. With a cover letter from Laffan to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. stating that this article ‘has not appeared in any paper’. He also states that he is an old member of the Third Order of St. Francis (Merchants’ Quay) having joined in April 1904 (66 years ago)’.