Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 7 October 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Kathleen Teebay

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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. Kathleen Teebay had come to know Ryan while he was imprisoned in Stafford, where she lived, and she became friendly with many of the other inmates. Ryan had been released from prison when the letter was written. Teebay refers to Miss Pearse and Mrs Pearse, sister and mother of Patrick Pearse (executed after the Rising) and notes that she was given a book that had belonged to Pearse from St. Enda's, Rathfarnham, the school he had founded. It also describes the wife of Darrell Figgis, arrested after the Rising, as a 'great agitator' and refers to others involved in the republican movement, including Michael Collins.

 University College Dublin Archives Dr James Ryan Papers, P 88/47 https://letters1916.ie/item/3420 English Kathleen Teebay 1916-10-07 41 Wolverhampton Road, Stafford, England James Ryan Female Politics Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Politics

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 41 Wolverhampton Rd Stafford. Sat: 7.10.16 Dear Mr Ryan, Thanks very much for your letter. I am sure you must feel a little sad that your holiday is over but perhaps it has been almost long enough. I was awfully glad to hear Miss Cregan is still in Ireland. I think she would have been brokenhearted to come so far away. I may be going to London for a short stay next month & I was going to ask her to come & see me then if she cared too - However I wish you would give me her address as I promised to get her some pc's & they have only just arrived. All friends here are terribly sorry for the boys in camp because they are having such a dreadful time. We do wish they would bring them back for the winter. Fr. Moore heard from Mr Collins lately but it was not very cheerful. Jo did not hear from Mert for a long time until just lately & she says his letters were stopped because he tried to tell her about it. The last time I heard from Miss Pearse she had not heard either - so perhaps it is the same explanation. Jo sends me some of the cuttings from the papers, I will forward to Mrs D. Figgis because she is a great agitator. Of course most of her energies up to the present have been concerned with Reading. Jo has not been to Wales yet but I am always urging her to do so because when she does she has promised to go come in here & stay with me - & we have an awfully warm corner for her - but it is rather a long way for her now as she is not returning to Liverpool. Do you remember Denis Daly perjuring himself by saying he could not write first because he did not know how to begin or end & had no previous experience to go upon. Well the initial difficulty has evidently proved too much for him so I have kept up rather a desultory one sided correspondence. I really must write him again about some of the "Kerryisms" in hopes it may cheer him - it is difficult to imagine him in the dumps. They nick-named me "Why so" down there & teased me dreadfully, so if he had been there as well I should hardly have survived. Well - your friends were awfully good to me in Dublin. I really did intend to write you before & tell you all about it so please forgive delay. I went to see Mrs Pearse a few times - she is quite close to you now, isn't she? They gave me a book belonging to Mr Pearse. R.I.P out of his study at Rathfarnham - & some other keepsakes & I am certain I shall treasure them more than anything. I am glad that I may be going to see her again soon. I am coming to Dublin at the end of October. Jo has a sister who is a professor in a College there, She has only been a little while & finds it rather lonely. She wants me to stay with her so I am almost certain to be there - at any rate over the weekend - so I hope I see you. I heard that the moustache has gone & that you looked a ruffian at Stafford & I would not know you now you are civilized - Perhaps so but I would have known your sister - she is so like you. Goodbye now. I remain, Yours very sincerely Kathleen Teebay. Kathleen Teebay Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 4 July 1916Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 1 August 1916Letter from Kathleen Teebay, Stafford, England to James Ryan, 7 October 1916 James Ryan Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 26 May 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 3 June 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 25 June 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 2 July 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 11 July 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, 19 July 1916Letter from Cis M. Coyle to James Ryan, c. 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