Letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan, 17 June 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Madge Calnan

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A letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan (1891-1970). She refers to a misunderstanding in a previous letter. She writes to James about news in University College Dublin and the exams that are going on. She also mentions a picnic organised that day in Tallaght for the Irish Relief Fund. The letter ends with a reference to buttons from the uniform of another arrested rebel, which Madge wants as a souvenir of the Rising.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 later became a founder member of Fianna Fáil and a government minister.

 University College Dublin Archives Dr James Ryan Papers, P 88/20 (1) https://letters1916.ie/item/415 English Madge Calnan 1916-06-17 Loreto Hall, 77 Stephen's Green James Ryan Stafford Prison, United Kingdom Female Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Country and City Life Politics

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 Loreto Hall, 77 Stephens Green. 17-6-'16 Dear Jim Thanks ever so much for your lovely long letter. It was very good of you to write again, but I have a crow to pluck with you. If you were annoyed at my having thought that the Gaelic excursion was put off on your account, I was doubly annoyed at the way you read it. What I meant was how could the college run an Irish excursion this year when the people who generally do so are away, and that we would not enjoy it under such circumstances. So now I hope you are not annoyed any more, for I am not, because I think you will forgive the loose phraseology of my last letter. I heard that Min has gone to Stafford, her visit will be a great pleasure for you and of course she will give you all the news. Exams are in full swing now. They began on Wednesday last. The pass degree students are getting very nice papers. My exam is not coming up till Thursday next, when I am doing pass history so don't forget the prayers that day. I really mean that. There is a great picnic in aid of the Irish Relief fund on today to Tallaght. Want of time is keeping me at home and I think it is the same with a lot of others. Everybody is rushed to death now making up for lost time. Yesterday I stole a book out of National Library and when I went in this morning at about 11 o'clock, the man accosted me with 'What did you do with Lodge's history, which you took out yesterday'. I had to confess my guilt, whereon Monsieur the librarian delivered me a lecture as long as today & tomorrow, so you may bet I won't try that trick again. I have just heard there is a 'National Student' coming out today. I'll send it on to brighten up your hearts when I get it. I do not know who is acting editor for Eimear O'Duffy but I think it is James Anthony M! How is Des Ryan? Give him my love. I began a letter to him but I couldn't find anything to say and as two or three other girls were writing to him I said I would put it off for while. Frank Murray did his Latin exam, I believe. You know he is doing Hons Degree in Sept and had to take pass Latin. Everybody though he would not do it till next year as he did not come back to College. I am going home I think on Friday next. Mother Eucharia refuses to keep anybody on who has done her exam. So write to me soon or if you have not written before then, get my home address from Dan. You seem to have a rather good time now. It is grand that there are so many College girls going boys there. Excuse this blot but Eileen McGrane is trying to persuade me to go to picnic today and I don't know I am writing. Eileen is only one going from here. I think Anita Connolly has not written to you yet. At present she is a fixture in National Library trying to stuff in a year's work into a few days, as indeed the most of us are. She says she will write to you in a few days and Maureen says the same. Both send all sorts of nice messages. Goodbye with best wishes Yrs very sincerely Madge Calnan P.S.Write soon and give us all the news. Dan has not sent me on buttons, but I suppose he will soon. You are very good to get them and when I get rich I am going to get one of them dipped in gold & made into a brooch for myself. M. Loreto Hall, 77 Stephen's Green Letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan, 17 June 1916 Stafford Prison, United Kingdom Letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan, 17 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 Madge Calnan Letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan , 8 June 1916Letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan, 17 June 1916