| ID | 18621 |
|---|---|
| Collection | Papers of Frank Gallagher (1893-1962) and Cecilia Saunders (1889-1967) |
| 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] |
| Collection Web Address | https://manuscripts.catalogue.tcd.ie/CalmView/ |
| Reference | TCD MSS 10050-65 |
| Description | 9 boxes and 4 photograph portfolios. This collection contains some 700 items of correspondence including over 260 letters (1914-54) from Frank Gallagher to his wife Cecilia (née Saunders) documenting his work for the Sinn Féin organisation (1917-18); his work under R. Erskine Childers on the publicity staff of the first Dáil Éireann (1919-22); his personal experiences of imprisonment and hunger-strike during the War of Independence and the Civil War (1919-24); comments on his collaboration with, and his assessment of, political figures such as R. Erskine Childers, Eamon de Valera, Desmond Fitzgerald, Robert Barton, Ernest Blythe, Eoin MacNeill, Terence MacSwiney and Sean MacBride; his visits to the US with, or as special envoy of, Eamon de Valera (1927-28: 1938-39). The collection includes Frank Gallagher's journalistic articles and reviews, Poblacht na hÉireann materials, drafts of short stories, drafts of his books on Irish political history and related materials, and poems and ballads.The diaries and notebooks include prison journals kept by Frank Gallagher (8 Jan-27 July 1923) and Cecilia Gallagher (24 May -17 Nov 1923). There are over 100 photographs and 2 photograph albums in the collection including Gallagher family photographs and several portrait photos of Eamon de Valera. |
| Access | By prior appointment. |
| Date | 1884-1973 |
| Century | 19th, 20th |
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| Repository Name | Trinity College Dublin, Manuscripts and Archives Department |
| Address | Old Library Dublin 2 |
| Eircode | D02 PN40 |
| Telephone | (01) 896-1189 |
| Telephone 2 | (01) 896-3384 |
| Email Address | mscripts@tcd.ie |
| Repository Web Address | https://www.tcd.ie/library/research-collections/manuscripts.php |
| Comment | The information listed from this repository has been extracted from lists available in the archives. The lists were compiled by staff of Trinity College, Dublin Library and we are grateful for their assistance. Due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually. We are grateful to Felicity O'Mahony for providing information on items and collections added since 1999. |
| latitude | 53.34401 |
| longitude | -6.25684 |