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A cara Enclosed is £16.10.0
which is as well as
I can remember the
amount of the bill
due to you by the
Irish Volunteers which I told you would be paid. This amount is paid out
of Volunteer moneys in
my hands. Mise do cara Ua Raighaille
(40 Herbert Park)
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This is a letter from Michael Joseph O'Rahilly (1875-1916) to Hely's Limited, a printing
company in Dublin. O'Rahilly writes enclosing the money owed to Hely's from a bill
accrued by the Irish Volunteers. It appears that he never got a chance to deliver
the letter or the money himself and it was later done so by Fr Aloysius Travers (1870-1957)
after the Rising.Michael Joseph O'Rahilly, self-described as 'The' O'Rahilly, was
involved in the procurement of arms in the lead-up to the Rising and was involved
in the Howth gun-running incident. He fought in the G.P.O. During the Rising and was
shot in Parnell/Moore Street on 28 April 1916 and died some time later. 'Fr Aloysius
was a Capuchin priest in Church Street in Dublin and of the members of the church
to minister to the leaders of the Easter Rising before the execution. Enclosed are
the original bill, the receipt issued to Fr Aloysius and an acknowledgment from Hely's
of the payment.