Letter to Mabel FitzGerald, 1916

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Letter to Mabel FitzGerald, 1916

1 Well Mrs it is time
for me to write to you and
I am very thankful to you
on acount of your advicing
me and advicing my little
Girl and if you can at
all tell her to come home
if you can at all how is
Mr Fitzgerald is out off
prison yet We are all
Germans here and any
amount of Voulintears 2
in Dingle yesterday
their did a Band came
from Dingle aginagainst
Ballyferriter Voullintears
Well no more to say
But I am very thankful
to you send me Nellion
adress if you can

This is an unsigned and undated letter sent to to Mabel FitzGerald (née Washington McConnell) (1884-1958), wife of politician and intellectual Desmond Fitzgerald (1888-1947). The letter seems to have been written while Desmond was still in prison and thanks Mabel for her advice and requesting that she asks the author's daughter to come home if possible. The author also refers to some Irish Volunteers activities in Kerry.Mabel was a former governess in London. She later vigorously canvassed her former acquaintances in London's liberal circles for support for Francis Sheehy Skeffington (1878 -1916) during his hunger strike in 1915. Both Mabel and Desmond would serve in the GPO garrison during Easter Week.

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How to cite

Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1346.html)