Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 1916
cod not to have come
down on Thursday &
I intended going on
Friday & spend the
day looking out
for you
come down tomorrow
no matter how wet
Im drenched at
present Love Sue
Come to Mount Street 2 M.J. Gorman Esq
Albert College
Glasnevin
Dublin 3 IF USED FOR TRANSMISSION TO ANY PLACE ABROAD TO WHICH THE 1d. RATE
OF LETTER POSTAGE DOES NOT APPLY, THE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE REQUIRED
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Michael Gorman was one a large Catholic family living at a farm in Ballinalug, County Laois (then Queen’s County). Susan Fitzgerald (d. 1980) was one a Church of Ireland family living in Raheenahone House near Stradbally, County Laois, also in the Slieve Bloom mountains. At the time the letter was written they were involved in a courtship but owing to the religious difference the love affair had to be kept secret. Eventually both were in Dublin: he in the Albert Agricultural College in Glasnevin (where he eventually became Professor of Agricultural Botany and Biochemistry) and she as a volunteer nurse in the Royal Hospital in Baggot Street. They eventually went to London to marry. The letter was written after Susan had arrived in Dublin as part of the Voluntary Aid Detachment, a voluntary group established to provide nursing to wounded British army soldiers. She refers to Michael as a 'horrid cod' for not coming to see her and asks that he visit tomorrow.
How to cite
Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__5464.html)
- Place
- 27 Lower Mount Street, Dublin
- Mentioned in
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 1916
- Place
- Albert Agricultural College, Glasnevin, Dublin
- Mentioned in
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 8 January 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 17 April 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 23 May 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 25 July 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 10 November 1915
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 22 January 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 12 October 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 12 January 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 1916
- Mentioned in
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- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 8 January 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 2 February 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 17 April 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 23 May 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 25 July 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 10 November 1915
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 22 January 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 12 October 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 12 January 1916
- Letter from Susan Fitzgerald to Michael Gorman, 1916