This work was originally published by Maynooth University in Ireland in
This is an open access work licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0).
This letter was addressed to Miss Anna O'Rahilly and refers to an inquiry by Miss O'Rahilly about her brother Michael's watch. The letter mentions that the watch and chain could not be traced despite a reward being offered to any man who found it. The author, a member of the Sherwood Foresters, believes that the watch was taken from Michael's body before his men could search him. This letter is part of a series of correspondence in which Miss O'Rahilly is attempting to locate a watch belonging to Michael O'Rahilly which was not returned to the family after his death. Anna O'Rahilly was the sister of Michael O'Rahilly. Michael Joseph 'The' O'Rahilly (1875–1916) was a nationalist and a journalist. In 1916 he aligned himself with Eoin MacNeill and Bulmer Hobson who opposed a preemptive rising. Although O'Rahilly played a large role in delivering MacNeill's countermanding order he felt obligated to stand with the men he recruited and trained. O'Rahilly was fatally wounded on the Thursday 27 April when the GPO was being evacuated.
The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).