Letter from Anna O'Rahilly to Mabel FitzGerald, 25 May 1916

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Letter from Anna O'Rahilly to Mabel FitzGerald, 25 May 1916

1 54 Northumberland Road Dublin. May 25th 1916 Dear Mrs Fitzgerald My sister in law asked me
to write to you about the bicycle
that Mr Fitzgerald took that fatal
morning to go to the post office
Perhaps by chance Mr Fitzgerald
did not bring it to there - you
said something about meeting
him & that you walked together
to the office - Could he possibly
have left the bicycle in some other
place where it might be now safe 2 Mac lost his cycle since so
they are badly off for one
now. With kind regards I am Yours vy sincerely Anna O'Rahilly. Added in 1992 The tyre had burst in Mill Town while
Desmond was on his way to Rathfarnham
to tell MacNeill that the Rising was
on and Desmond had abandoned it there.
Garrett Fitzgerald
20/3/92

A letter from Anna O'Rahilly (d. 1958) to Mabel Fitzgerald (née Washington McConnell) (1884-1958), wife of politician and intellectual Desmond FitzGerald (1888-1947). The letter refers to a bicycle borrowed by FitzGerald to get to the GPO on the first day of the Rising. Anna enquires about its possible whereabouts on behalf of O'Rahilly's wife. A note dated March 1992 explains what happened to the bicycle.Anna O'Rahilly was a sister of Michael Joseph O'Rahilly ('The O'Rahilly') (1875–1916). Both O'Rahilly and FitzGerald had been supportive of attempts to stop the Rising taking place but joined in once it has started. O'Rahilly was killed in Moore Lane on Thursday of Easter week. 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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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1356.html)