Reference code
IE CA IR-1/1/2/4/3
Title
Letter from Sister M. Gonzaga to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.
Date(s)
- 18 Sept. 1916 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4 pp; Manuscript
Name of creator
(24 October 1877-14 February 1925)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Letter from Sister M. Gonzaga, Loreto Convent, Fermoy, County Cork, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., expressing her hope that the ‘brave Sinn Feiner you are anxious about is safe now’. She also declares that ‘1916 is a year marked in letters of blood, the heart blood of our best and noblest’. She concludes by asking for a prayer for ‘the brave boys you helped to die’.