| Description | Letters, petitions and reports: Irish Republican Prisoners' Dependants' Fund; Sinn Fein and others describing events - hunger strikes, killings; prisoners, and conditions in prisons and prison hospitals. Includes submissions about the mistreatment by 'Free Staters' of women prisoners from Mrs [Iseult] Stuart and Florence O'Brien, secretaries of the delegation appointed by the Federation of Women' s Societies, about CID raids and treatment of women; refers to Miss O'Harte's arrest for collecting for the prisoners dependents; Miss Dorothy MacArdle's account of an attack on women prisoners in Kilmainham; Hon. Albina Broderick, a Red Cross nurse, arrested without charge, her own, Mary MacSwiney's and Mrs O'Callaghan's hunger strikes. Addressees include Senator Mrs Alice Stopford Green. Letter from Maeve Phelan to her sister Mary (1923) about her arrest. 1 volume of material. |
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