Letter from J E Lyons to Miss Coates, 5 July 1916 Letters 1916-1923 J E Lyons

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Transcription of a letter from a prisoner recently transferred (on the 26th June) from Wandsworth prison to Frongoch and thanking Miss Coates of the Ladies Committee for visits to Wandsworth. The letter refers to the North and South camps at Frongoch, the number of men in the south camp (approximately 600) and the number in each hut (30). It refers to the conditions, the management of the camps and the availability of supplies and requests assistance for prisoners who have no money to purchase cigarettes etc. The JE Lyons letter has been transcribed and sent with an introduction and postscript referring to other letters, (presumably to Art Ó Briain) According to the 1936 Roll of Honour John E Lyons served at the Four Courts Garrison during the Rising. From the Art Ó Briain Papers held in the National Library of Ireland. NLI records indicate that MS 8434 /23 is a collection (13 items) of letters from prisoners in Frongoch and Reading jails. Art Ó Briain (1872-1949) was Honorary Secretary of The Irish National Relief Fund which was set up to provide assistance to the dependents of those executed in 1916, those sentenced to prison and to the prisoners themselves.

 National Library of Ireland Art Ó Briain papers, c. 1900-c.1945, Ó Briain’s work for Irish political prisoners (1916-21), MS 8434 / 23-4 https://letters1916.ie/item/3990 English J E Lyons 1916-07-05 Frongoch, North Wales (South Camp) Miss Coates London, England Male Civil War (1922-1923)

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 Frongoch. Sth Camp 12/7/16 A cara. as the ladies com: does notappear to be meeting I send thecopy of a letter from Frongock.I have received several mostly fromthe poor citizen army men whom Ivisited at Wandsworth. The Censor had quite washed out twolines of one letter from a Lewes friend- teacher of Irish at Rockwell Coll: butone sentence was camp practicallyunder our own control. However the letter of one old manwhose son was with him at Wandswthis full of details from the camp.(which I had asked him to supply). 5/7/16. Dear Miss Coales, We arrived here onthe 26th and I take the opportunityof thanking you for your kindnessto us during our stay in Wandsworthwhich helped to brighten ourlot very much while there. The prisoners here are separatedinto two camps. North and South I am int he 8th Camp where there 2. are about 600 men. We are in huts about30 in each which are well lighted,ventilated and clean. We take ourmeals in huts preserved for thepurpose. Our own men managethe camp, keep order, cook clean etc The supply of rations is fair, thebread and meat being freshand the tea of good quality.There is very little margarine orbutter, no cheese, or jam. There isa canteen where these things canbe brought, but as there are anumber of men who have no moneythey have to do without them and also without cigarettes, tobaccoand matches. If you could doanything for us in this matteryou would confer a great benefiton us. Thanking you again. Yours faithfully J. E Lyons. This letter as all others took aweek to reach me. Another letter of a young Dublin ladwhom my mother found and had never hada visit until the last week. He was very timid London, England Letter from Lancelot Worthy Horne to Robert Chalmers 31, May 1916Letter from Edward O'Farrell to Bertram Cubitt, 10 June 1916Letter from Lancelot Worthy Horne to Command Paymaster, 8 May 1916Telegram from Basil Home Thomson, Assistant Commissioner at New Scotland Yard, to Sir Neville Chamberlain, 9 April 1916Letter from Sir Edward O'Farrell to Sir Reginald H Brade, War Office, 12 November 1915Letter from John Condon to Herbert Samuel, 17 June 1916Letter from Matthew Nathan to the Treasury, 3 March 1916Letter from Lady Henrietta MacDonnell to Lady Clonbrock, 23 September 1916Postcard from C.D. Groom to Lady Clonbrock, 1 March 1916Letter from Lady Henrietta MacDonnell to Lady Clonbrock, 28 October 1916Letter from Colonel Douglas Proby, to Matthew Nathan, 25 February 1916Letter from Herbert Samuel to Lord Wimbourne, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 15 February 1916Letter from Colonel Douglas Proby to Augustine Birrell, 26 January 1916Letter from Labour Party of Bruff, Co. Limerick to British PM H.H. Asquith, February 1916Letter by Edward O'Farrell to R.J. Nugent, 29 February 1916Letter from the Controller, Foreign Trade Department, to Sir Matthew Nathan, 19 February 1916Telegram from James Davidson to Samuel and Clara Davidson, 8 April 1916Letter from William Haldane Porter to Edward O'Farrell, 1 January 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to M.J. Murphy MP, 11 November 1916Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Mabel FitzGerald, 25 May 1916Letter from Michael Governey to Major General, Army Veterinary Service, 10 January 1916Letter from Henry Lawson to Director General, Army Veterinary Service, 18 January 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Cecil Harmsworth, 1 April 1916.Letter from Cecil Harmsworth to Augustine Birrell, 31 March 1916Letter from Edward O'Farrell to the Secretary, General Post Office, London, 1 June 1916 Telegram from the Managing Editor, Central News to the Secretary, Dublin Castle, 20 May 1916Letter from Celia Duffin to Auntie D, 3 December 1915Letter from Maria Duffin to Celia Duffin, 13 February 1916Letter from Father Edward Murnane to George Gavan Duffy, 24 July 1916Letter from Laurence Ginnell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 19 May 1916Card from Father Bally to the editor of the Irish Citizen, 2 November 1915Letter from Art Ó Briain to The Commandant, Frongoch Internment Camp 8 September 1916Letter from Art Ó Briain to John J Neeson, 4 September 1916Letter from James O' Dwyer to Art Ó Briain, 31 August 1916Letter from J E Lyons to Miss Coates, 5 July 1916Postcard to Edward Carson, 4 May 1916Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Sir William Henry Thompson, 2 February 1918Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Herbert Eldon Roaf, 14 March 1919Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Captain J.C. O'Farrell, 11 June 1919Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Mrs. R.J. Quin, 30 September 1919Letter from Paddy Guinness to Cesca Chenevix Trench, 6 June 1916Telegram from Basil Home Thomson, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, to Sir Neville Chamberlain, 8 April 1916Letter from Henry Wilson to James Craig, 1922 Frongoch, North Wales (South Camp) Letter from J E Lyons to Miss Coates, 5 July 1916 J E Lyons Letter from J E Lyons to Miss Coates, 5 July 1916