| Description | General correspondence of R.E. Childers and M.A. Childers arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
7847 A-C
7848 D-K
7849 L-M
7850 N-P
7851 R-Z
Many letters relate to the republican position in Irish politics post Treaty and Civil War. The following represents examples of correspondents in the collection.
Includes letters to M.A. Childers, from among, others:
Eleanor A[cland], 14 December 1921
Caitlín Ní Eachuighearn [K. Aherne], Cork, 27 November 1922
Frank Aiken:
Father Albert, Franciscan Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin:
Sara Allgood, 25 November 1922
Helen Atteridge, London, 9 December 1921-21 January 1923 (4 letters)
Lilian C. Barker, Lady Superintendent, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 9 March 1917 (copy)
Louie Bennett, 20 December 1922
Lady Sarah Anne Byles, 13 June [1921]-[1922] (15 letters).
The correspondence includes letters from Republican women [widows and mothers of executed republicans] to:
[W.G. Harding], US President, 6 December 1922
Republican Women A La Saintete Le Pape Pie XI, Le Vatican, Rome, signed on behalf of the widows and mothers of executed republicans by Josephine Marie [Countess] Plunkett, Jemima O'Daly, Alice Mary Barry and N. Kilkelly, 4 December 1922.
Includes letters of M.A. Childers to, for example:
Captain A.S. Murray, Saorstát Éireann Criminal Investigation Department, 26 July 1923, with letters of Murray to M.A. Childers:
11 July 1923
24 July 1923.
Áine Ceannt, secretary, Committee for the Maintenance of Orphans and widows, Irish White Cross, Mansion House, Dublin, 29 December 1922.
The correspondence includes letters from [Constant] Conquelin to Miss Mary Osgood, February 1895-1902 with many undated (c.15 letters).
Letters of Kate Courtney to M.A. and Erskine Childers, [July 1907?]-9 September 1923 (c31 letters), the letter, 1 July 1920, from Kate Courtney to M.A. Childers contains an extract from Kate Courtney's diary with references to Ireland's constitutional position vis-a-vis Britain.
Letters from M.A. Childers to Éamon de Valera:
c.19 July 1921
6 January 1934
28 November 1940.
Letters from De Valera, 3 November 1921-7 December 1963, with some items undated (14 letters, 4 cards and 2 telegram).
Letters from Sinéad de Valera to M.A. Childers:
24 November 1922
28 June 1924
24 November 1933.
Letter from É. de Valera to [Sinéad de Valera], 27 November[1922].
Letter of M[argaret] D[igby] to M.A. Childers, 25 August 1921.
Undated verses by Margaret Digby.
Letter of Marie C. Dillon, Executive Secretary Women's Education League, to M.A. Childers, 10 January 1923.
Letters of George Gavan Duffy to M.A. Childers:
[November 1922]
10 July 1935
18 July 1935.
Letter of Margaret Gavan Duffy to M.A. Childers, 23 November 1922.
Letters from Frank Gallagher from Mountjoy Military prison to M.A. Childers, 31 March 1920-13 April 1920 (5 letters).
Letters to M.A. Childers from Gallagher following his release, 15 April 1920-13 July [1920?] (5 letters)
Letters to M.A. Childers from Gallagher following re-imprisonment, including some from Gormanstown Internment Camp, 22 August 1922-24 November 1923 (15 letters)
Letters to M.A. Childers from Gallagher, 23 December [1928]-9 June 1953 (4 letters).
Correspondence between Alice Stopford Green and M.A. Childers and Erskine Childers, various dates 4 December 1911-20 December 1921, with some undated. The letter, July 1914, from M.A. Childers to Alice Stopford Green recounts the early stages of the Howth gunrunning voyage. The correspondence also includes letters to Alice Stopford Green from:
Robert Barton, 16 November 1914
Joseph Devlin, National Club, Belfast, 21 October 1914
18 November 1914 (copy)
Bulmer Hobson, 5 July 1915.
Letters and a card from Lady Gregory to M.A. Childers, 13 November [1913]-23 October 1931 with 1 undated letter (1 card and 8 letters).
Letter from Katherine Tynan Hinkson, from Cologne to M.A. Childers, 29 December 1922.
Letters from Bulmer Hobson to M.A. Childers, 7 October 1914; 18 October 1914.
Letter from Mrs Dorothy Hungerford, Greystones, County Wicklow to M.A. Childers or Mary Mac Swiney, c.1923, the letter includes verse by Hungerford entitled 'To Éamon De Valera'.
Letter from Rosamond Jacob to M.A. Childers, 26 November 1922.
5 letters from Alice [Johnson] to M.A. Childers, 11 August 1921-25 November 1922.
Includes 'The Mind and Heart of Mary Childers as shown in selections from a personal correspondence with Helen Landreth', selected and edited by Helen Landreth 1965.
Correspondence between M.A. Childers and members of the Lindsay family, Oxford, 22 April 1921-20 November [1922].
Poem written to M.A. Childers by Dorothy Macardle while imprisoned in Mountjoy, 1923.
Letter from Minnie McCarthy, Secretary, American Irish-Liberty League, 3239 Mission Street, San Francisco, to M.A. Childers, 12 December 1922.
5 letters/cards from Sister Francisca MacDonagh, Stanhope Street Convent, Dublin, to M.A. Childers, 26 June 1922-8 September 1923.
Letter from Isa M. Macnie, Secretary, Irishwomen's Association of Good Citizenship, 37 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, to M.A. Childers, enclosing a statement relating to the objects of the association, [c.July 1925].
2 letters from Eithne McSuibhne to M.A. Childers:
1 outside Mountjoy jail, 25 November 1922
1 addressed from Sinn Féin offices, 56 Grand Parade, Cork [c1923].
1 letter from Con[stance de Markievicz?] to M.A. Childers, [November 1922]
Letter from Alice L. Milligan, 22 December [?].
Letter and sympathy card with verse from Susan Mitchell, 25 November 1922, [post marked November 1922?].
Letters from Lily O' Brennan to M.A. Childers, 14 July 1921-25 November 1922 (13 letters, a number written from Mountjoy Prison).
Letter from Rory O'Connor, Mountjoy Prison, to his mother, 8 December 1922 (copy)
Letter from Rory O'Connor to his sister, 'Eily', 8 December 1922 (copy).
Letters from Ernie O'Malley, some from Kilmainham, to M.A. Childers, 16 July 1923-8 December 1923.
Letter from Marion K. O'Malley, 28 October [1923].
Letters from Horace Plunkett to M.A. Childers, 9 June 1911-20 December 1922 (c22 letters and 1 telegram).
Letters from John Redmond to M.A. Childers, 26 September 1914-8 June 1917 (4 letters 1 telegram).
Letter from M.A. Childers to Redmond, 12 June 1917.
17 letters from George William Russell to Mrs Childers (27 February 1920-29 November 1934, some undated).
Letters from Mary Spring Rice, Mount Trenchard, Foynes, County Limerick, to M.A. Childers, 27 July [1914]-27 December 1922, with one undated (9 letters).
1 letter and a telegram from Dr Dorothy Stopford, 30 November 1922, 30 October 1924.
Letters from Jack B. Yeats to:
Mrs Osgood, 18 February 1932
M A. Childers, 22 February 1922.
Letter of W.B. Yeats to M.A. Childers, 29 December [after 1920].
2 letter by E[llen] Y[oung] to M.A. Childers, [December 1922]; no date.
Verse by Ellen Young, 'The Black Rose', in memory of Erskine Childers, Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellows and others of their dead comrades, 14 December 1922 letter from Ellen Young and Stella Maris, Avondale Terrace, Harold's Cross Road, Dublin, to M.A. Childers, [December 1922].
Correspondence of Charlotte Despard, 1923. |
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