Letter from R.E. Shanahan to Cornelius Daly, 16 March 1923 Letters 1916-1923 R E Shanahan

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 Kerry County Archives Charlie Daly Collection, P41/8/12 https://letters1916.ie/item/5210 English R E Shanahan 1923-03-16 Castleisland, Kerry, Ireland Cornelius Daly Male Civil War (1922-1923)

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 Castleisland March 16th '23 My Dear Con, Wife & Family In this awful timeof your Sad Bereavement, Myself & Familyjoin in sending you our Heartfelt Sorrowfor the loss of your Brave Noble BoyPoor Charlie (R.I.P) To know him was to love him. Ah. Godhow Cruel. I thought Ireland never reareda Son that would send Poor Charlie to hisDoom. But God knows best, Con. I knowon this occasion words Bear little MeaningFor a Brave Old Heat. Such as yoursthat is stabbed to the CoreAh. Ireland. Ireland. Ireland. Such is the fateof your Noblest Best. As one who loved Charlie and Knowing youIdolized him such as I did my own Brave'Bouchal Bawn' Poor. Poor. Dick. R.I.P.Knowing & Loving them Both. Is it not a consolationto you & I to know they Never shrank From giving up their lives for 'The Old Land'The Fondest wish of Their Hearts would be Oh, How Sweet to Live & Love Her,Grander still it were to die,With The Green Clad Hills of Ireland,Echoing out their Last 'Good-Bye' God Comfort you all is thePrayer of your old Friend R.E. Shanahan Castleisland, Kerry, Ireland Letter from R.E. Shanahan to Cornelius Daly, 16 March 1923 R E Shanahan Letter from R.E. Shanahan to Cornelius Daly, 16 March 1923