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Brownsgrove NS
Tuam 12.2.16 A Cara, Cuir chugam mas e
do thoil é an drama
Fear na Milliún Punt
Seo é ocht pighinn — luach
agus costas posta. Ta Beidh mé buideac
ma beidh se agam le
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an gcead posta. Mise le meas mór
Bean Ui Threasaigh
An Saoi P. Beaslai. Address Mrs Tracey,
Brownsgrove NS
Tuam. My dear friend, Please send us the play ‘The Man of the Million Pounds’. Here
is eight pence – price and cost of postage. I would be grateful if I got it in the
first post. Yours respectfully,
Mrs Tracey
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An Saoi Piaras Beaslai,
18 North Frederick St.,
Dublin.
The letter is from Bean Ui Treasaigh (Mrs Tracy) of Tuam, County Galway, to Piaras
or Pierce Béaslaí, born Percy Beazley (1881-1965). The writer requests a copy of Béaslaí's
play, 'Fear na Millúin Punt', and asks that it be with her by first post. 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.