Part 58 - Prisoner Poem, Lewes Jail

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IE CA CP/3/16/5/58

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Prisoner Poem, Lewes Jail

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  • 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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      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

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