A Christmas greeting card from Seumas O’Brien. The card has a verse by Brian O’Higgins. The card has an image of the bandstand and lake in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin.
A Christmas greeting card from Victor Waddington.
An image of a group of men seemingly playing some form of card game outside the ornate entrance to a large building in Dublin.
A card illustration signed by Seán O’Connor. The illustration was presumably torn from an original greeting card.
Card signed by ‘Constance de Markievicz, I.R.A.’ and Kathleen Clarke. Dated at Holloway Jail, Dec. 1918’. With cover opened by the censor.
Card to Anna Fahy, 17 Norfolk Road, Phibsborough, Dublin, from Richard Francis Hayes giving an account of his and Frank Fahy’s imprisonment in Reading Jail. He writes ‘We are doing fairly well here – thanks especially to Frank who has been everything to us. I have only one complaint against him and I tell you because you will sympathise with me. He is next cell to me and has a frightful habit of making dreadful noise in his cell in the dark mornings between 6 & 7. He insists on persuading me he is singing & is training his voice!’.
Postcard to Frank Fahy, ‘Q.2/34 / Irish prisoner of war, Lewes Prison’. The card is signed ‘Ui Dálaigh’. It appears that Fahy’s correspondent was a prisoner himself. The image-side has a portrait print with a manuscript annotation underneath which reads ‘Patrick’s Day / 1917 / Q.121’. The card reads ‘Dear Frank / Just a reminder that our thoughts are with you this Patrick’s Day and every day until the sun shines for us all again’.
Card to Frank Fahy, ‘Irish Prisoner, Lewes Prison, Lewes, England’, from Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC. The card reads ‘Holy Thursday / You are always remembered since we met at the F[our] C[ourt]’s. May God bless you always. / Fr. Augustine OSFC’.
Hayden, Augustine, 1870-1954, Capuchin priestCard to Margaret Mary Pearse from Joseph J. O’Kelly, Killiney Road, Killiney, County Dublin, re a small subscription for the Captain Robert Monteith fund.
Postcard to Patrick Pearse, 517 West 144th Street, New York, from ‘the Fitzgeralds’ sending Easter greetings.