Reference code
IE CA IR-1/1/2/1/20
Title
Photographic copy of a letter from Robert Erskine Childers to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.
Date(s)
- 20 Nov. 1922 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
3 copies; Photograph print
Name of creator
(24 October 1877-14 February 1925)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
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).