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Date(s)
- 1916, [?20 cent., second ¼] (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
3 ff.
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Biographical history
Archival history
Letter previously mounted on card, inscribed 'Sean Hales - Frongoch Camp. 1916' and '[p.] 58'. Bought by Eamonn de Búrca at an auction in Cork, together with other papers relating to the Keyes McDonnell family.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
De Búrca Rare Books; Blackrock, County Dublin; Purchase; May 2017; 99751516502419.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A letter, 30 August 1916, in pencil, from the Irish nationalist [Seán] Hales of Bandon, County Cork, then a prisoner at Frongoch Internment Camp, Merioneth, to his friend [William] McDonnell, Bandon, in which he describes life during his incarceration and pays tribute to McDonnell's wife, [Kathleen], for her support (f. 34). The letter was apparently smuggled out of the camp by a visitor.
Also included is a typescript transcript of the letter, [?20 cent., second ¼], apparently supplying the fragments of text now lost in the original (ff. 35-36). Hales was later a member of the Dáil Éireann but was assassinated on 7 December 1922.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Torn, and repaired at NLW with some loss of text.
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Related units of description
Publication note
Liz Gillis, The Hales Brothers and the Irish Revolution (Cork, 2016), pp. 44-45.
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Name access points
- Hales, Seán, 1880-1922 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Fron-goch (Concentration camp) (Subject)
- McDonnell, William Keyes -- Correspondence (Subject)
- McDonnell, Kathleen Keyes (Subject)