Letter from Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill to Nancy O'Rahilly, 28 July 1916. Letters 1916-1923 Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill

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A letter from Eoin C. Mac Giolla Comhghall to Nancy O'Rahilly (1875-1961). The writer (a Catholic Priest) has just heard that Mrs.O'Rahilly has given birth to a son and describes the event as 'added glory for the hero who has fallen'. He promises to remember the family in his Masses and he says that the women related to these brave men 'ought to be the proudest women on Erin's soil today'. Finally he congratulates 'little Michael Joseph' and hopes he will take his great father's place for his mother and for Ireland.Nancy O'Rahilly was a member of the Provisional Council of Cumann na mBan at the founding in 1914 and the wife of Michael Joseph O'Rahilly, self-described as 'The' O'Rahilly (1875-1916). The O'Rahilly fought in the Easter Rising and was shot in Parnell/Moore Street on 28 April 1916 and died some time later. Nancy was pregnant at the time of her husband's death – the child was born three months later.

 University College Dublin Archives Humphreys Papers, P106/092/1 https://letters1916.ie/item/1482 English Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill 1916-07-28 Parochial House, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland Nancy O'Rahilly Male Easter Rising Ireland 1916

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 I.M.I.A. + PAROCHIAL HOUSE, CLOGHAN, STRABANE. July 28. 1916. My dear Mrs O'Rahilly, I hasten to add a word to my hurried post card of yester- day to offer yourself and your darling child my best blessing. Mrs. Humphreys sent me the good news. I will make a fervent memento in my Masses for yourself and baby that God top left corner of this page contains a P.S. which is transcribed on the final page and his Blessed Mother may keep you and bless you and cheer you, too, in the loveliness of this little visitor's coming. Yet who shall say the martyred father is far off? We may thinkit, that is all. It is not so. Another Christian Child for Heaven is added glory to the hero who has fallen and he is near to rejoice with Mother and child, and God Himself is near to fill his stainless little heart. The friends of God must be with their God. Yes 'tis still the same united family. The mothers and wives and sisters and daughters of the brave men ought to be the proudest women on Erin's soil today. Tens of thousands are jealous of your story. And the glory of being their children! After being a Catholic and a priest I would ask no greater myself. I con- gratulate little Michael Joseph! May he take his great father's place for his mother & for Ireland! I send you a little song specially dedicated to the mothers, wives, sisters & daughters of our heroes. God bless you, a bhean uasal, and God bless your little ones. Do Chara le mor mheas Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill, (L.B. Coyle) the following P.S. is form the top corner of the first page of this letter P.S. An Agnus Dei enclosed for baby with a blessing Nancy O'Rahilly Letter from Neans bean í Rathgaille (Nancy O'Rahilly) to Mabel FitzGerald, circa 26 May 1916.Letter from Nancy O'Rahilly to Mabel FitzGerald, May 1916.Letter from S.M. Martina to Nancy O'Rahilly, 25 May 1916.Letter from Herbert Pim to Nancy O'Rahilly, 26 May, 1916.Letter from Kathleen Hogan to Nancy O'Rahilly, 29 May 1916.Letter from Amelia Jephson to Nancy O'Rahilly, 14 June 1916.Letter from M. Curry to Nancy O'Rahilly, 15 June, 1916.Letter from the Office of the Chief Commissioner of Police to Nancy O'Rahilly, 19 June 1916Letter from Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill to Nancy O'Rahilly, 28 July 1916.Postcard from Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill (Coyle) to Nancy O'Rahilly, c. May 1916.Letter from Kathleen Hogan to Nancy O'Rahilly, 31 July 1916.Letter from J.J. Dunne to Nancy O'Rahilly, 3 August 1916.Letter from Mrs. E.N. Gilbert to Nancy O'Rahilly, 30 August 1916. Letter from Kathleen Lynn to Nancy O'Rahilly, 23 November 1916.Letter from Celia to Nancy O'Rahilly, c. May 1916.Letter from Eiblín Ní Sheaghda to Nancy O'Rahilly, c. May 1916Letter from Denis to Nancy O'Rahilly, 5 May 1916.Letter from Sister M. of Good Counsel (Mangan) to Nancy O'Rahilly, 7 May 1916.Letter from N. de Buitléir to Nancy O'Rahilly, 7 May 1916.Letter from Máire de Buitléir to Nancy O'Rahilly, 24 May 1916.Letter from Áine Ní S. to Nancy O'Rahilly, 9 May 1916.Letter from Annie Curran to Nancy O'Rahilly, 10 May 1916.Letter from Eithne A. Kelly to Nancy O'Rahilly, 14 May 1916.Letter from Nancy Campbell to Mrs. O'Rahilly, 17 May 1916.Letter from M. Malone to Nancy O'Rahilly, 17 May 1916.Letter from Emily Weddall (Emhin Ní Uadall) to Nancy O'Rahilly, c. May 1916. Letter from Pronnséas Ó Súilleabháin to Nancy O'Rahilly, 18 May 1916.Letter from Mary to Mrs. O'Rahilly, 19 May 1916.Letter from Mrs E.N. Gilbert to Nancy O'Rahilly, 21 May 1916.Letter from Laurence Ginnell to Nancy O'Rahilly, 28 May 1916.Letter from Julia Evans to Nancy O'Rahilly, 1 June 1916.Letter from M. Costello C.C. to Nancy O'Rahilly, 23 May 1916.Letter from Agnes MacNeill to Madam O'Rahilly, 17 August, 1916.Letter to Nancy O'Rahilly, 18 May 1916. Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill Letter from Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill to Nancy O'Rahilly, 28 July 1916.Postcard from Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill (Coyle) to Nancy O'Rahilly, c. May 1916. Parochial House, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland Letter from Eóin B. Mac Giolla Chomghaill to Nancy O'Rahilly, 28 July 1916.