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'Company' Guardroom Richmond Barracks 18 th May 1916 My Dear Gerry, I suppose
Mr. Mathews has given you
the good news — I should say
'Deo gratias' if I were with
Mammy. I say 'Deo Gratias'
now! My money is run out, so
I'd be glad to get £1 in change.
You've brought me so many
good things to eat that I should
be ill if I tried to eat them: and
now I get hot meals, in plenty. God bless you all — with all
my love. Your affectionate Father
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Mrs Geraldine Dillon 13 Belgrave Road Rathmines Co. Dublin A.R.L
2nd Lt
A letter from Count George Nobel Plunkett (1851-1948) to his daughter Geraldine (b.
1891). The letter was sent from Richmond Barracks where Plunkett was being held at
the time. He refers to some good news delivered to Geraldine by a solicitor, requests
some money and thanks Geraldine for food she had sent.Count Plunkett has a nationalist
and a papal count. He had been sworn in to the IRB by his son, Joseph Mary Plunkett
(1887-1916), before the Rising and arrested afterwards. Count Plunkett was elected
as an MP in 1918 and a member of the first Dáil.