1 P41/4/6/8 109 Bishop Street
Derry
19th March 1923 A chara dhil Just a few lines from the black North
to tell you how sorry I am for your great loss.
We have got no particulars here yet but I shall
do my best to find out everything, all I know
at present is they died like heroes and Charlie
led them out and they all carried lighted candles
and sang let me carry my cross for Ireland. The
firing party were ex-black & tans they were
supposed to have come from Dublin. They were
supposed to be shot as a reprisal four for an
officer called Cannon who was killed at
Creeslough but Cannon was killed in a
mutiny of Free Staters in Creeslough. I shall do
all I can to find out everything but I must wait
for some little time yet. I had a letter from him
on Tuesday last little did I think. I may
tell you that all the people in the North
that new him are broken-hearted, there
is no need to tell you all we thought of him
a better or nobler man never lived &it is 2 hard to think that it should have been in
Donegal such a tragedy should take place. I did
not know any of the other Kerry men, but I
must find out if there are any Kerry men left.
I would have sent you a wire on Wednesday but
I did not know your address and I did not
believe it possible and it is hard even yet to
realise it. One of the other men Larkin live was
from Derry and his two sisters went off to America
on Saturday, my heart was sore for them I shall
never forget the sight. I shall send on all the
news that I can possibly get and sometime maybe
if I go to Kerry I am going to see you as I would
love to see you. My father is a Kerry man so I
may get a chance down to the Kingdom sometime.
Accept my sincerest sympathies in your great
loss, I shall pray for God to strengthen you to
bear your heavy burden. Slán & beannacht
Jennie Gallivan