Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 28 November 1918

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Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 28 November 1918

1 Mesopotamia 28 Nov. 1918 Dear Reverend Father Provincial, P.C. Seventeen Masses for Father Farley during November. I can hardly believe that Father Fitzgibbon has been killed. He certainly made the best
of the time given him. Five chaplains, Fr
O'Sullivan, Fr Dan Roche, frFrank Browne, Fr
Fitzgibbon, and myself got our appointments in
France on the same day, and we made a promise
to remember one another always at Mass. Frs
O'Sullivan and Fitzgibbon are now in the
Memento for the dead. There is no talk yet of leaving this country,
but I imagine they will try to get us away
before next hot weather, which begins in
June, and is worst in July and august. It
won't be my fault if I am delayed in my return.
Your Reverence's cablegram was very welcome,
and may keep on things a bit. It will be very interesting to follow the discussions,
if they are made public, which will begin when the
cleverest rogues of the world meet at the great
Peace Conference. I recommend myself to the prayers of all. Yours in Christ, Francis M Shaw S.J.

Letter from Francis M. Shaw (1881-1924) to the Father Provincial Thomas V Nolan (1867-1941) regarding the death of Father Fitzgibbon. Francis, or Frank, Shaw SJ was born in Ennis, county Clare. He was ordained on 31 July 1916 at Milltown Park, Dublin. Fr Shaw joined the war early in 1916, working in the 16th General Field Hospital at Le Tréporte. In 1917, possibly due to his nationalistic views, Fr Shaw was dispatched to India, and later to Mesopotamia.Fr. Thomas V. Nolan was the Provincial of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus (1912-1922) and was a member of the Distribution Committee which looked after the welfare and distribution of the Belgian refugees who arrived in Ireland as a consequence of the First World War.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1175.html)