File 20 - Photographic copy of a letter from Robert Erskine Childers to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

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IE CA IR-1/1/2/1/20

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Photographic copy of a letter from Robert Erskine Childers to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

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  • 20 Nov. 1922 (Creation)

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3 copies; Photograph print

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(24 October 1877-14 February 1925)

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Photographic copy print of a letter from Erskine Childers, Beggars’ Bush Barracks, Dublin, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., declaring that he is ‘to die tomorrow at 7’. He states he will ‘die happy and undefeated and at peace with God and men’. Fr. Albert referred to this letter in his statement titled ‘The Case of Farther Albert, O.S.F.C.’, defending his actions and declaring his ‘absolute impartiality’ during the War of Independence and later at the outbreak of Civil War hostilities in Dublin in 1922 (CA IR-1-1-2-4-6).

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