Letter from John Reidy to Frank Hugh O'Donnell, 9 May, 1916. Letters 1916-1923 John Reidy

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Letter from Frank Hugh O'Donnell (1846-1916) to the Honorary Secretary of the Kerry County Board of the National Volunteers, 1916. The writer is accounting for 10 rifles and bayonets which had been lent to him in March, 1915.Frank 'Francis' Hugh O'Donnell was an Irish nationalist and politican. In 1877, O’Donnell secured election to the House of Commons as MP for Dungarven, County Waterford. O’Donnell clashed with Parnell for leadership of the Home Rule party, eventually abandoning the Irish Parliamentary Party to co-found the National Democratic League and serve as its president 1904–6. Opposing the service of Irishmen on the British side in the South Africa war, he wrote an anti-recruiting pamphlet for the Irish National Club.

 Military Archives of Ireland Bureau of Military History Contemporary Documents, Frank O'Donnell Collection BMH CD/52/2/22 https://letters1916.ie/item/50 English John Reidy 1916-05-09 57 Moyderwell, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Frank Hugh O'Donnell Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Male Easter Rising Ireland 1916 World War I (1914-1918)

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 57 Moyderville Tralee May 9.1916 Dear Mr. O'Donnell, In reply to yours of 26th inst.re the 10 rifles & bayonets lent us on the 7th March 1915, please note that on the day the colours were blessed at the Race-course, 7 rifles and bayonets were given in at Mr. Liston's office. Of the remaining 3, 2 are at Mr. John Heffernan's Farmers' Bridge 1 is at Mr. Ml Ahern's Caherleaheen. Yours truly, John Reidy F. O'Donnell Esqr Billy Dunne has one John Reidy Letter from John Reidy to Frank Hugh O'Donnell, 9 May, 1916. Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Letter from John Reidy to Frank Hugh O'Donnell, 9 May, 1916. 57 Moyderwell, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Letter from John Reidy to Frank Hugh O'Donnell, 9 May, 1916.