Reference code
IE CA IR-1/5/2/2
Title
Letter from Richard Mulcahy to Terence MacSwiney
Date(s)
- 8 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
Typescript letter from Risteárd Ó Maolchatha (Richard Mulcahy), Chief of Staff of the IRA, to Terence MacSwiney, expressing his alarm on hearing that he ‘had been going about Cork during the day and even staying at home and elsewhere at night without any protection’. Mulcahy added ‘I want you to try and realise what a blow it would be to our prestige, if, after, what has happened in Cork, you should be attacked without having a scrap of protection … . A simple general instruction is being issued on this matter, but you must understand that your position is unique …’. Manuscript annotation on the reverse: ‘Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne’.