| Description | The first deposit of the Ernie O'Malley papers [P17a] contains material on:
Cumann na mBan activities 1922-1924, including intelligence files, memoranda and correspondence between General Headquarters and the organisation
Scheme to find employment for released prisoners, a statement from the Women of Ireland to the Senate and Congress of the US
See also recollections of Mrs Woods, Dublin, relating to Liam Mellows and Sean Etchingham who stayed in her house, and her involvement with Cumann na mBan,1939-1945
Letter from Sheila Barry and Mary Coyle relating to an assault on them by Free State soldiers, 1922
Statement to the Pensions Board, including one of Katherine Barry Maloney relating to activities as a courier of dispatches from Dublin to the Southern Division, 1936-1952
Notes made by Madge Clifford (Mrs John Comer), 1925-1926
Letters from Mary and Annie MacSwiney relating to the setting up of a Republican Executive, 1919-1921
Lists of 'irregulars in Britain and Scotland including women active in Glasgow, 1922-1923
See also the O'Malley notebooks of interviews, from the 1930s onwards, with former army personnel, there are some women, for example, Madge Clifford, secretary to Stack, Lynch and O'Malley, Bridie Clynes, Dublin, Maire Comerford, Dublin, Hannah Condon Cleary, godmother to Liam Lynch, Nora Loughnane of Galway, Nonie Kennedy, sister of Paddy Lacken Ryan of Tipperary.
There are 22 boxes. |
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