Handbill Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin/IRA. 'Everything will yet work out right for Ireland. Extracts from Harry Boland's last letters'.
TitleHandbill Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin/IRA. 'Everything will yet work out right for Ireland. Extracts from Harry Boland's last letters'.
ReferenceU758/05
Date
nd [August 1922]
Production date 1922-08 - 1922-08
Scope and ContentExtracts from letters to American friends dated 'from the Dublin Mountains'. '...it may very well be that I shall fall in this awful conflict, I want to place on record the events that have lead up to this British manufactured war on the Republic'. Refers to 'Coalition Cabinet', 'draft Constitution' carried to London by Arthur Griffith, Mick Collins in London before election day; Boland was 'a liaison or medium acting between our party and Collins', waiting to hear of cabinet posts for anti-treaty deputies, but 'Instead...the Free State army opened the attack on the Four Courts with four pieces of British Artillery'. Refers to second Dail not being dissolved and replaced by 'the Partition Parliament', death of Cathal Brugha, 'the greatest man of the day', 'the Chief [De Valera] is at G.H.Q. hale and well...All the calumny that has been heaped upon him is British inspired....'. "....The world will yet honour Ireland for her devotion to Freedom. Even though 'This' be left a smouldering heap of ruins the world shall know that there is one land which preferred death to dishonour"
Extent2pp
Persons keywordBoland, Harry | Irish Revolutionary d.1922
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