| Collection Description | Frank Gallagher married Cecilia Saunders in 1922 and they had two daughters, Ann and Mary. He died in
Dublin in July 1962. Cecilia Saunders was born in Cork in 1889. She was one of ten children and her family
owned a horticultural nursery. She was a pupil at Miss Kelly's private school at South Mall, Cork and later at
Belrive, the Faithful Companions of Jesus boarding school in Liverpool. Cecilia Saunders taught English in a
Jewish boarding school in Weisbaden, Germany in 1912-13 where she made the acquaintance of Erna Walter,
later married to Hugo Wortsmann. Cecilia and Frank Gallagher were successful in gathering support for the
admission of the Wortsmanns to England in 1939 as refugees while they awaited their visas to move to the US
in 1940. Cecilia worked as a bank clerk, in the Provincial Bank and later in the National Land Bank, in Cork
prior to her marriage. Frank and Cecilia Gallagher were married on 24 May 1922 and subsequently settled in a
flat in Dublin. Frank Gallagher was arrested and interned on 10 Oct 1922 and Cecilia Gallagher was arrested
on 9 November. The couple spent their first Christmas as a married couple in different wings of Mountjoy Jail.
Cecilia remained at Mountjoy until her tranfer on 6 Feb 1923 to Kilmainham Jail. On 1 May 1923 she was
moved to the North Dublin Union and was finally released on 28 September 1923. Cecilia Gallagher died in
Dublin in 1967. [Trinity College Dublin] |
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