| Collection Description | Papers of Conn Murphy, founding member of Conradh na Gaeilge, and his family. Murphy got involved in politics
during the War of Independence and the Civil War, and was vehemently anti-Treaty and was imprisoned by the Free
State in 1923. Murphy married Annie Byrne and lived in Rathgar, where they raised their four children: Annie Mary
Constance Murphy (known as 'Connie'), Kathleen, Feargus and Conn. All of the Murphy children were involved in the
Irish independence movement. The eldest, daughter Connie, was imprisoned at the same time as her father and was
held at Cork City Jail, Kilmainham and North Dublin Union before her release in late 1923. She married IRA
intelligencer, Desmond Bracken Murphy. Kathleen studied medicine and served as head of UCD Cumann na mBan.
She set up a campaign to save German children orphaned in the Second World War. |
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