1 Glengarriff,
Co. Cork. Oct 10th 1916. Dear Mother, Your notes have certainly been short.
I was interested in the cutting from the
"Daily News". There was a big anti-conscription
meeting at Limerick under Linden M.P. in
which he called on all the young men of
Ireland to rally around Redmond to resist
conscription & to be prepared to resist it
in their thousands. There are two very nice young Irish
officers in the Eccles with very sensible
views, almost as good as R.B's. It
is a comfort to think that a year in
the army has not made them imperialists.
I gather that they are by no means misguided. I have talked to a good many of
the country people round here. The one
thing that interests them is conscription
& they all say that if they have to die 2 they'll die in their own country so that I
think it would take 1/2 a million men to
conscribe us and whatever they got of us
would only wait their chance to goshoot
their officers & any other English troops
that came handy. Take it all in all
I hardly think the govt will be insane
enough to try & there is always the off
chance of trouble here turning the
in America & Australia. If they
bring in conscription, I look forward,
should I survive it, to seeing the end
of the English. I had a pleasant day yesterday.
Sailed in the morning & tea on Garnish
in the afternoon. There are a
rather curious crowd at the Eccles.
The two officers I mentioned & two others
one a rather nice little Rhodesian.
The stiff V. a rather nice woman
as (I forget her name), a Lady Theodora D— ? and her daughter
the former a decent stick the latter a minx
& a Miss —? who seems nice. Then & Lord Frederick Hamilton. I rather
like the latter but he is inclined to think himself amusing
when not trying to be funny he talks very interestingly & has seen a lot of the Wouldings he has been in every country. Yours Diarmuid 3 Wed I leave here for the Stockleys tomorrow
& on to Mt T. on Sat. I did
not go to Lynsaghts because L told
me that he would not be at home
this autumn. I only heard
through you that he might be there.
I had arranged with Stockleys to
go on Thurs (tomorrow) & did not
like to change without reason or
to propose myself to them for more
than 2 nights. I hope you will come home
for the winter. I shall be
back in Dublin the end of next
week & shall go to L.P.A. until 4 you come but would not like to
stay there long. I had a good Irish lesson
today. Your Diarmid I am at Casey's Hotel. 5 Mrs. Coffey
C/O Emily Lady Lawrence
Langridge
Near Bath