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IE 2135 NDAI N5/1/3/1/6 · Item · 15 March 2009
Part of The Fearghus Ó Conchúir Papers

Photocopy of a letter from Evann E. Siebens, 1415 Walnut Street, Vancouver BC, Canada thanking Fearghus Ó Conchúir for participating in ContainR and reporting on the excellent response to the screening of Match. Items in N5/1/3/1/5 were probably originally attached to this letter.

Ó Conchúir, Fearghus (b. 1969), dancer and choreographer
IE 2135 P46/1/4/1/1 · File · 13 February 1921 (date of original)
Part of The East Limerick Brigade Papers

Photocopy of a manuscript letter from [Flight Lieutenant] Mackay [to Lieutenant Colonel J. M. MacCarthy], confirming that he has been ‘treated with every possible consideration and respect’ by the IRA from the time of his being taken prisoner. Also a typescript copy of same, undated but post 1948. Also see P46/1/4/1/2.

MacCarthy, John Maurice (1896-1976), Irish Volunteer
IE 2135 P13/1/1/10/8 · Item · March 1995
Part of The Robert Stradling Collection

Photocopy of a letter from former Irish Brigadier, Frank B. Fitzgerald, Jersey, to Denis O’Shaughnassy, Corbally, county Limerick, complimenting his article in the Limerick Leader and outlining his life after returning from Spain, which included joining the R.A.F. In relation to Spain, notes the first casualty of the Irish Brigade, ‘It was Tom Hyde from Middletown Co Cork one of the flour milling family’, and also describes an attack on the railway line from Madrid noting ‘We blew the train off the track and all the train crew were killed’. In addition, mentions losses to the company and outlines a rescue operation of one of his men, stating ‘I raced up the left bank hoping I might save him. I grabbed his arm while I held on to a small bush on the bank three of my men pulled me and the man out. We wouldn’t have lasted another 30 secs.’ Also records training in base at Cáceres. Also contains section entitled ‘GENERAL FRANCO’S PART IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS’. Paginated.

Stradling, Robert Arthur, scholar
IE 2135 P13/1/1/10/7 · Item · 22 March 1995
Part of The Robert Stradling Collection

Photocopy of a letter from Frank B. Fitzgerald, Apartment Number 1, “Transvaal”, Fauvic Grouville, Jersey C1, former non-commissioned officer in Company of Irish Brigade to Des Ryan, noting why he chose to go to Spain, and stating ‘One of my first achievements was to blow up the armoured train which came from Madrid almost everyday’.

Stradling, Robert Arthur, scholar
IE 2135 P13/1/1/3/3 · Item · 29 March 1939
Part of The Robert Stradling Collection

Photocopy of a letter from General Eoin O’Duffy of Irish Brigades, “Farney”, Merrion Park, Blackrock, county Dublin, to Tom Hayes, noting that he has sent Hayes’ certificate and the annual anniversary mass, ‘18 members of the Brigade have gone to their eternal reward R.I.P. & many others are in poor health since their [return]’, and also states ‘it would have been proud day for the Irish Bde to lead in the victorious march into Madrid yesterday: But it not to be. The British & Irish governments insured that. Concludes ‘“Time will justify our motive, we seek no praise, we did our duty, we went to Spain”’.

Stradling, Robert Arthur, scholar
IE 2135 P8/2/1/3 · Item · 23 June 1906 (date of original)
Part of The Edward P. McGrath Papers

Photocopy of a letter from James Joyce, Via Giovanni Boccaccio, Trieste, Austria to Grant Richards, in which he agrees to modify certain words and passages in Counterparts and other stories in order that the story Two Gallants may be included. Suggests to Richards that he find another printer ‘who was dumb from his birth, or, if none such can be found, a person who will not “argue the point”’. Concludes by saying that he has sent Richards a copy of a Dublin paper which will illustrate that ‘the Irish are the most spiritual race on the face of the earth’ and hopes that this will reconcile him to Dubliners. States that he seriously believes that Richards ‘will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking-glass’.

McGrath, Edward Patrick (1929-1994), journalist and consultant
IE 2135 P8/2/1/6 · Item · 13 October 1906 (date of original)
Part of The Edward P. McGrath Papers

Photocopy of a letter from James Joyce, Via Donato Bramante, Trieste, Austria to Grant Richards, in which he outlines the publishing history of Dubliners. Mentions a letter which he had sent to the press in August 1911 concerning the book [copy included]. Suggests that in view of the strange publishing history of the book, and the fact that ‘Dublin is the centre of general interest’, the time is opportune for his ‘luckless book to appear’. States that he is willing to contribute to the expenses of publication if Richards is prepared to publish.

McGrath, Edward Patrick (1929-1994), journalist and consultant
IE 2135 P8/2/1/4 · Item · 10 July 1906 (date of original)
Part of The Edward P. McGrath Papers

Photocopy of a letter from James Joyce, Via Giovanni Boccaccio, Trieste, Austria to Grant Richards, in which he outlines the various concessions he has made as to the alteration of some stories in Dubliners. States that he would rather omit five stories from the book than omit the story Two Gallants which is ‘the most important story in the book’. Also states that he regrets not being able to meet Richards in person and that if it were possible he ‘could much more easily defeat whatever influences you in holding your present position’. Concludes by noting that in composing his chapter of moral history, he has ‘taken the first step towards the moral liberation of my country.’

McGrath, Edward Patrick (1929-1994), journalist and consultant