| ID | 2464 |
|---|---|
| Reference | Ms8002 |
| Description | Letters to Ellen O'Leary from James Brittan, R W Colles, R A King, G O'Doherty, Charles Gavan Duffy, J Dowling, B Kavanagh, Archbishop Croke ('My dear Miss O'Leary, Please write my name on £5 worth of tickets for the "Pope's Cup'''), together with a note to Heser Sigerson [Mrs Piatt] with an manuscript poem by Ellen O'Leary. Also letters to Ellen O'Leary from Mary Anne O'Doherty, 'Eva' of 'The Nation', from Brisbane, 1872, with news of her family: 'As for myself, it does not much matter to me now where I may be - my real life is in the children ... They are good children, thank God, and love me very much - their father is very proud of them, but he has never realized quite the practical part of his obligations to them - he seems never to be able to grow older - that is, to lay aside the habits & ways of a young man and become the sober sage pater familias'. On religious life, she declares, 'Dear Ellen, you amuse me by your holy horror of my heterodoxy - how strange it seems to me that anyone can seriously admire the conventual system - would it not be quite as well if these vows were not quite so tight - why not leave a safety valve. No doubt the virgin life is the highest but it is so only when purely voluntary & it can only be [?found] to be purely voluntary by leaving poor girls the power of escape if they do repent'. |
| Access | By prior appointment. |
| Date | c1870-c1900 |
| Century | 19th |
| Keywords | |
| Repository Name | National Library of Ireland |
| Address | National Library of Ireland Department of Manuscripts 2-3 Kildare Street Dublin 2 |
| Eircode | D02 TR76 |
| Telephone | (01) 603-0386 |
| Email Address | mqueries@nli.ie |
| Email Address 2 | info@nli.ie |
| Repository Web Address | https://www.nli.ie/en/homepage.aspx |
| latitude | 53.34186 |
| longitude | -6.25441 |