Charlie Murphy

May 24, 2020June 16, 2020

WEEK 132: (24th – 30th May 1920)

“Very fine hot day. We cycled to meeting at Jordons, a pretty old house in a lovely garden, half wild, with a graveyard in front & a dell full of flowers behind, with trees above. Meeting just like any other. In the evening Maya & I cycled to Gerrard’s X to a meeting of Friends to discuss the duty of Quaker employers in the labour question.“

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December 16, 2018December 18, 2018

WEEK 63: (16th – 22nd December 1918)

“They said Redmond was having the Mall beeswaxed for a dance in honour of his victory, & that Nolan of Patrick St had a contract to paint the sky. Angela Quinn is back again with her hair up. We made tentative arrangements about classes.”

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November 5, 2018November 5, 2019

WEEK 58: (5th – 10th November 1918)

“Mrs P. told me she was going to join a league that is being got up to pray for England, & wd I join it? Lane has by no means got to the point of praying for England, & spoke with feeling on the matter. I explained that I didn’t believe in hell, & so didn’t feel the case of the English people so pitiable, as to require us to pray for them, & Mrs P. was much amused.”

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September 23, 2018October 16, 2018

WEEK 52: (23rd – 29th September 1918)

“She talked a lot about conscientious objections & their sufferings too. I went with her to the meeting house door to show her the way. & T. came to dinner. There was a general meeting at the club a.t. to choose delegates for the Convention, & they chose Butler, J. Connolly & me. “

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July 23, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 43: (23rd – 28th July 1918)

“I went to the club committee, & Charles Kenny’s affidavit about the treatment of the prisoners in Belfast jail was read aloud – an appalling document.”

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March 11, 2018November 29, 2018

WEEK 24: (11th – 17th March 1918)

“The Redmonites had a procession in the evening & I, not being sure at first that they were Redmonites, hung a flag out of the drawing room window, which infuriated them so that a lot of them came and hurled themselves against the door, & yelled & shouted, and put up a torch to burn the flag, I pulled it in just in time & they threw a torch in after it, but it went out as soon as it fell.”

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December 3, 2017November 29, 2018

WEEK 10: (3rd – 9th December 1917)

In the afternoon we had a visit of more than 2 hours from Eamonn Ó Duibir, stouter than he was, & wearing a Volunteer uniform. He was very pleasant & talked a lot. He was forcibly fed 10 times in Mtjoy, & hunger struck again at Dundalk – I hope it hasn’t had a fattening effect on all of them.”

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