Reference code
IE CA CP/3/16/5/58
Title
Prisoner Poem, Lewes Jail
Date(s)
- 1917 (Creation)
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1 p.; Manuscript
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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
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The text of a poem titled ‘Resurrection’ with an ink drawing of a prisoner cap labelled ‘The noblest crown an Irish head can wear’. The text was seemingly written by an Irish political prisoner in Lewes Prison in England. The text is signed with the initials ‘J.J.B.’.
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Note
Prisoner Q121 in Dartmoor and Reading Jails was Frank Fahy (1879-1953), a revolutionary, Irish language activist, teacher, and politician. https://catholicarchives.ie/index.php/correspondence-and-papers-of-frank-fahy