Letter from Séamus Breathnach, Secretary, Kinsale (Thomas Kent) Sinn Féin Club, to Gregory Ashe, 6 October 1917 Letters 1916-1923 Séamus Breathnach

This work was originally published by Maynooth University in Ireland in 2017. In 2026 this data, stored in a relational database was extracted and converted into this TEI/XML document.

 Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Vienna, AT 2026

This is an open access work licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0).

This letter expresses sympathy on the death of Gregory's son, Thomas. Thomas Ashe from Co. Kerry (* 1885) was a member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and co-founder of the Irish Volunteers.

 Kerry Library, Tralee Thomas Ashe Collection https://letters1916.ie/item/6631 English Séamus Breathnach 1917-10-06 Kinsale, (Thomas Kent) Sinn Féin Club, Co. Cork, Ireland Gregory Ashe Male The Rising Tide (1917-1919)

The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).

 Kinsale (Thomas Kent)Sinn Fein Club 6.10.'17 A Dhuine Uasal It affordsme melancholy pleasure to bethe medium of conveying toyou on behalf of the membersof above club an expressionof profound sympathy on thedeath of your noble son. Go dtugadh Dia agus aMhuire Máthair maighdeanasólás duit Mise do chara Séamus Breathnach Rúnaidhe Kinsale, (Thomas Kent) Sinn Féin Club, Co. Cork, Ireland Letter from Séamus Breathnach, Secretary, Kinsale (Thomas Kent) Sinn Féin Club, to Gregory Ashe, 6 October 1917 Séamus Breathnach Letter from Séamus Breathnach, Secretary, Kinsale (Thomas Kent) Sinn Féin Club, to Gregory Ashe, 6 October 1917