Reference code
IE CA CP/3/16/36/18
Title
Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride
Date(s)
- 1 Feb. 1949-19 Apr. 1949 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
3 pp; manuscript and typescript
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing her happiness to be associated with the presentation to Captain Robert Monteith. She also refers to her efforts to secure pensions for the surviving members of Casement’s brigade and for the Connaught mutineers. A copy of a reply to MacBride from Thomas F. O’Higgins, Minster of Defence, is included which refers to the provisions of the Military Service Pensions Act. MacBride also states that it was Casement’s last wish to be buried in Ireland ‘is still unfilled’.