Reference code
IE CA IR-1/5/2/5
Title
Letter from Arthur Griffith to Terence MacSwiney
Date(s)
- 29 Apr. 1920 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 p.; Autograph typescript
Name of creator
(13 February 1883-17 October 1935)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Letter from Art Ó Gríobhtha (Arthur Griffith), Acting President Dáil Éireann, to Terence MacSwiney, acknowledging receipt of ‘unanimous resolution of the Corporation of the city of Cork requesting the Executive of Dail Eireann to bring the verdict returned by the Corner’s Jury at the inquest on the late Lord Mayor of Cork to the attention of the Governments of the civilised world’. Tomás Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot on 20 March 1920.