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Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71 or 74, Lisbon, Portugal, reassuring his parents of his wellbeing and describing life in the trenches: ‘did you not get my other letters I wrote 6 of them so did Teddy [Ryan] and Frank [Hempenstall] they were in a bad way when I told them about not getting there letters at home… you saw in the papers about some of our fellows being killed it was pretty tough as they were very nice chaps, our Company was leading the attack that day and not one of us was hurt, we are up beside Madrid now we can see it in the distance it look very big from where we are’.

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71 or 74, Lisbon, Portugal to his parents: ‘we are getting it pretty easy out here at present it is very quiet we are about 2 miles from Madrid now it look to be a great place from where we are… I do be looking forward to your letters for a bit of news as we do not no what is going on at home we get no English papers out here’.

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o General O’Duffy, Cáceres, Spain to his parents: ‘it wont be long now till I am back we are to land at the north wall on the 23rd May at 2OC’.

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71, Lisbon, Portugal to his parents, apologising for leaving without telling them and giving his impressions of Spanish people: ‘the people out here are very nice only they cant speak English we do have right sport trying to make them understand what we want.’

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o General O’Duffy, Cáceres, Spain to his parents: ‘Well mother and dad I cannot make out how you did not get my letters I also wrote to Ned and Greta but I never got a answer… we are expecting to be shifted to some other place in a couple of days time so we are seeing a bit of spain’.

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o General O’Duffy, Cáceres, Spain to his parents: ‘I have good news, this time I expect to be home in less than four weeks time we are back from the front now for a rest in caceres… I am looking forward to going home as we are all fed up with this place’.

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71 or 74, Lisbon, Portugal to his parents, describing life in the trenches: ‘Well mother we are on the front line at last it is safe enough only for the shells comeing over but we have got that used to them comeing over that we take them as a joke… we get paid every week and we spend on grub and cigs, I never touch the drink now it is only a cod getting drunk out here you need your head where I am… Well mother it is terrible to see the way the Reds smashed up the chapels here it would make your blood boil but they are rotten cowards’.

Photocopy of a letter from T. P. Kilfeather, Sunday Independent, Independent House, 90 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, to Joseph A. Cunningham, Solicitor, Enniscorthy, county Wexford, regarding the Irish Brigade series and its content.

Photocopy of a letter from the Secretary of General Eoin O’Duffy, 12 Pearse Street, Dublin to [Mrs. McCloskey], stating that in response to ‘your letter of February 3rd. to General O’Duffy re – Leo McCloskey. Dublin Road. Drogheda, the General now asks me to let you know that McCloskey is doing well, a splendid fellow, and he is very proud of him’.