Letter from 'Teresa'(Agnes Ryan) to James Ryan, 20 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Agnes Ryan

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Letter from Agnes 'Teresa' Ryan (1888–1967) to her brother James Ryan (1891-1970), sent shortly after he had been sent to Stafford detention camp in England. She writes mainly about their family (especially their mother) and matters at home. She also mentions friends who had also been arrested after the Rising in Wexford and were awaiting trial in Richmond Barracks, Dublin. The 'Min' mentioned in the letter is another sister, Josephine Mary Ryan (1884–1977).James Ryan studied medicine in UCD. He was appointed chief medical officer in the GPO during the Easter Rising. After the Rising he was imprisoned in Stafford and, later, Frongoch and was released in August 1916. Ryan was later a founder member of Fianna Fáil and a government minister. Teresa Agnes Ryan married Denis McCullough (1883–1968), a member of the IRB and the executive of the Irish Volunteers, in August 1916.

 University College Dublin Archives Dr James Ryan Papers, P 88/10 https://letters1916.ie/item/212 English Agnes Ryan 1916-05-20 Tomcoole, County Wexford James Ryan Stafford, England Female Easter Rising Ireland 1916

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 Tomcoole. 20.5.1916. My dear Jim, We got a notice today, through Min, that you could receive letters. This day week I sent you a note with stamps & note—paper to reply but nothing came. Then your Mother wrote to the Commandant yesterday, I should say a questioning letter. What care if you are alive and not too badly off. Things are much the same here. Dick has shaved off the whiskers. The Hollow-back has foaled, anonst to them all. Kit and Nell are still in Mountjoy, having the time of their lives. Dinny, Seán Z & many other friends are still in Richmond, all awaiting their trial. They are all being very well treated and in good form. The house full here with people enquiring after you all. (Mother is in the Cellar — Sat. morning 'That'll be two' etc). She is improving very much and can eat everything now. She steals the potato every day at dinner-time. No cabbage now — the Bos has a puss in consequence. All the corn just sown. Jack reads the novel night & day, between Mother's questions. Fr. Gaul is changed and we are getting Fr. M. Murphy Ferns. All delighted here. A little game tomorrow morning. Jim H.O.C comes here strong again. They have a mare on hands — Martin's — for Fair of Ross on Tuesday. We hear occasionally from all the prisoners. Paddy Cullen says 'its a quare man would not be in now.' I could never give you all the news. You will have to visit. Did you happen on P. Kehoe and Pat Jackman over there? ' They'll be late this year with them.' We have the 'early nudge' in the big meadow along by the Lake. You never heard anything like Ned W. these times. He is riding the mare every evening & comes in to his supper — we killed a pig last week — lashins of everything. He said you would think Ned Doyle was reading Latin the way he talks. Chris got home from Galway after a month's stay. She has us bothered ever since about their grandeur. 'I don't believe these stories, though' Una, poor child, is bad with a nasty attack of the measles. She has not been out for some weeks now. She did not return to the North at all. The weather is glorious and the work is going on well — except at intervals when he slips on to the road with George and auld Mickie. You would not know which of them was which. G. told Ned W. the other day, he says, that he would never 'die from being killed.' Best love from all at home Your affec. sister Teresa. Agnes Stafford, England Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 26 May 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 3 June 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 25 June 1916Letter from 'Teresa'(Agnes Ryan) to James Ryan, 20 May 1916Letter from Seaghan Z. to Séamus (James Ryan), 18 July 1916Letter from Joe to James Ryan, 25 May 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 11 June 1916 Tomcoole, County Wexford Letter from 'Teresa'(Agnes Ryan) to James Ryan, 20 May 1916 Agnes Ryan Letter from 'Teresa'(Agnes Ryan) to James Ryan, 20 May 1916Letter from 'Teresa' (Agnes Ryan) to her brother James Ryan, 4 June 1916 James Ryan Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 26 May 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 3 June 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 25 June 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 2 July 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 11 July 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 19 July 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, c. August 1916Letter from Seaghan Z to James Ryan, 12 July 1916Letter from 'Teresa'(Agnes Ryan) to James Ryan, 20 May 1916Letter from Katherine Brady to James Ryan, 5 July 1916Letter from Joe to James Ryan, 25 May 1916Letter from Denis McCullough to James Ryan, c. June 1916Letter from Phyllis Ryan to James Ryan, 19 May 1916Letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan , 8 June 1916Letter from Phyllis Ryan to James Ryan, c. June 1916Letter from Phyllis Ryan to James Ryan, 1 June 1916Letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan, 17 June 1916Postcard from 'M' to James Ryan, 27 May 1916Letter from 'Teresa' (Agnes Ryan) to her brother James Ryan, 4 June 1916Letter from Peggie O'Sullivan, Birmingham, to James Ryan, 1 July 1916Letter from Josephine Mary (Min) Ryan to James Ryan, 29 May 1916Letter from Chris Ryan to James Ryan, 13 June 1916Letter from Jim to James Ryan, 11 July 1916Letter from R. Hickey to James Ryan, 26 May 1916Letter from Mary M to James Ryan, 1916Letter from K.B to James Ryan, c. early June 1916Letter from Maudie Davin to James Ryan, 6 July 1916Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 4 July 1916Letter from James Ryan to Liam Ó Briain, 1 June 1916Letter from Michael Collins to James Ryan, 23 August 1916Letter from Michael Collins to James Ryan, 2 September 1916Letter from Eamonn T. Dore to James Ryan, 19 September 1916Letter from Sean T. O'Kelly to James Ryan, 26 August 1916Letter from Sean T. O'Kelly to James Ryan, 15 September 1916Letter from Sean T. O'Kelly to James Ryan, 22 October 1916Letter from Mairín Ní Ribhógh to James Ryan, 2 August 1916Letter from Major C. Harold Heathcote to James Ryan, 13 September 1916Letter from Major C. Harold Heathcote to James Ryan, 19 September 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 11 June 1916Letter from Phyllis Ryan to James Ryan, Tuesday 6 June 1916Letter to James Ryan from Frances KellyLetter to James Ryan from MargaretLetter to James Ryan from May GrayLetter from Eamonn T. Dore to James Ryan, c. September 1916Letter from Mort O'Connell to James Ryan, 9 October 1916Letter from Maura [Power] to James Ryan, 18 October 1916Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 1 August 1916Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 7 October 1916Letter from D. C., Stafford, England, to James Ryan, 9 August 1916Letter from Peg O'Sullivan, Birmingham, to James Ryan, 2 October 1916