Letter from Eamonn T. Dore to James Ryan, c. September 1916
Near Bala,
Wales
Saturday
My dear Jim, Received yours on yesterday
and was delighted to hear your intended
mending your ways. Of course I know
it will take some exertion but even so
if you intend getting quallified in March
you had better start and lead a good
life. I am very much afraid your present
company will corrupt you. Nevertheless
when you are down and out think of
the correct life we lead in town last year. Tell Roisin I was very sorry to
hear she was ill. I hope she be on the
on way to recovery before this reaches
Dublin. Do the two little Paddys kno
knock around as usual? How did Mul.
get on at the March exam? Joe Murray
will be a dab at Anatomy soon. George's
hair is getting on fine. The gum right enough a open about my writing
there. Goodbye old man
for a few more weeks.
F.Shouldice wishes to be
remembered to you.
Yrs. Eamonn
P.S.Liam O'B. got
your letter.
Eamonn. 2 stopped its growth for a while. He is no
longer like Jack Johnson. Who is that
young lady that said she would ask fo
Eddie Dore when she came to Frongoch? It
is not right to keep a fellow in suspense. Tell that young lady you saw with me
at the top of Grafton Street I enquired
for her. I must confess I do not know
who you mean. I am sending this tho
through the Camp Censor so I want it to
go direct fearing you would send on
that Halliburton. You need not send
it as I got one from home some time
ago. Tell Mul. the Cunninghams arrived
alright. Any chance of "Mahon's Notes". All the boys are in the pink. Liam
O'B. wrote to Maureen and was surpris—
ed to hear his letter did not arrive in
Ballyshannon. Do not forget to tell her
he wrote. Seán Neeson and Morkan
and some others left for Reading on
yesterday. When writing to Seán T. tell
him I enquired particularly for him.
Remember me to all the old crowd.
Hope all yours are as well as
I would wish them to be. Do not
forget to tell Roisin what I said. I met
her a few times. I will write to the Convent
of Mercy in a few days. You need not kick up
James Ryan (1891-1970) studied medicine in UCD. He was appointed chief medical officer in the GPO during the Easter Rising. After the Rising he was imprisoned in Stafford and, later, Frongoch and was released in August 1916. Ryan was later a founder member of Fianna Fáil and a government minister. Eamon Dore was a member of the Irish Volunteers and served as a bodyguard to Sean MacDiarmada. one of the leaders of the Rising. He was subsequently imprisoned in Frongach internment camp. In the letter Dore asks Ryan, who had already been released from Frongach, about family and friends at home and also refers to some of his fellow prisoners.
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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__3102.html)
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- Letter from Phyllis Ryan to James Ryan, 19 May 1916
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- Letter from Madge Calnan to James Ryan, 17 June 1916
- Postcard from 'M' to James Ryan, 27 May 1916
- Letter from 'Teresa' (Agnes Ryan) to her brother James Ryan, 4 June 1916
- Letter from Peggie O'Sullivan, Birmingham, to James Ryan, 1 July 1916
- Letter from Josephine Mary (Min) Ryan to James Ryan, 29 May 1916
- Letter from Chris Ryan to James Ryan, 13 June 1916
- Letter from Jim to James Ryan, 11 July 1916
- Letter from R. Hickey to James Ryan, 26 May 1916
- Letter from Mary M to James Ryan, 1916
- Letter from K.B to James Ryan, c. early June 1916
- Letter from Maudie Davin to James Ryan, 6 July 1916
- Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 4 July 1916
- Letter from James Ryan to Liam Ó Briain, 1 June 1916
- Letter from Michael Collins to James Ryan, 23 August 1916
- Letter from Michael Collins to James Ryan, 2 September 1916
- Letter from Eamonn T. Dore to James Ryan, 19 September 1916
- Letter from Sean T. O'Kelly to James Ryan, 26 August 1916
- Letter from Sean T. O'Kelly to James Ryan, 15 September 1916
- Letter from Sean T. O'Kelly to James Ryan, 22 October 1916
- Letter from Mairín Ní Ribhógh to James Ryan, 2 August 1916
- Letter from Major C. Harold Heathcote to James Ryan, 13 September 1916
- Letter from Major C. Harold Heathcote to James Ryan, 19 September 1916
- Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 11 June 1916
- Letter from Phyllis Ryan to James Ryan, Tuesday 6 June 1916
- Letter to James Ryan from Frances Kelly
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- Letter to James Ryan from May Gray
- Letter from Eamonn T. Dore to James Ryan, c. September 1916
- Letter from Mort O'Connell to James Ryan, 9 October 1916
- Letter from Maura [Power] to James Ryan, 18 October 1916
- Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 1 August 1916
- Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 7 October 1916
- Letter from D. C., Stafford, England, to James Ryan, 9 August 1916
- Letter from Peg O'Sullivan, Birmingham, to James Ryan, 2 October 1916
- Place
- Frongach internment camp, Bala, Wales
- Mentioned in
- Letter from Michael Collins to James Ryan, 23 August 1916
- Letter from Michael Collins to James Ryan, 2 September 1916
- Letter from Eamonn T. Dore to James Ryan, 19 September 1916
- Letter from Eamonn T. Dore to James Ryan, c. September 1916
- Letter from Mort O'Connell to James Ryan, 9 October 1916