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23 Lr Dominic Street
Gallimh 4.2.1916 A chara, An bhféadfá cóip de
Cluiche Cártai nó dráma maith
ghrinn eile do chur chugam? Tá
ceann ag teasdáil ón gCumann
Gaedhlach annso le haghaidh lae 'le
Pádraig. Cuir in iúl dúinn cé tá le
díol as ceann ar bith chuirfeas tú
chugainn má chuirtear ar an árdán
é. Bhí Fear an Sgéilín Grinn
againn anuraidh. Mise agat, le cion ort
Tomás Ó Ceallaigh 23 Lr Dominic Street
Galway 4.2.1916 My dear friend, Could you send me a copy of ‘A Game of Cards’
or or another good comic play? The Gaelic Society here wants one for St. Patrick’s
Day. Let us know who is to be paid for any that you send us if it is staged. We
did ‘The Man with the Funny Story’ last year. Yours affectionately,
Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
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Piaras Béaslaoi,
c/o J.J. O'Kelly Esq
Messrs M. H. Gill & Son Ltd.
Dublin Please forward
The letter is from Tomás Ó Ceallaigh of County Galway to Piaras or Pierce Béaslaí,
born Percy Beazley (1881-1965). Ó Ceallaigh asks for a copy of Béaslaí's play, 'Cluiche
Cartaí' and refers to the staging of another play. Béaslaí was a journalist, writer
and member of the militant Keating branch of the Gaelic League. He fought in the North
King Street area during the Easter Rising and was imprisoned afterwards. He later
became publicity officer in the Dáil government and edited the IRA newspaper 'An t-Oglach'.
He wrote twenty plays between 1913 and 1939.