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April 12, 2020February 18, 2020

WEEK 126: (12th – 18th April 1920)

“A very bad account in the papers of the hungerstrikers in Mountjoy, who were at it a week this day. Mrs Kinsella, who is back in the Mall Lane lodgings again with apparently no intention of going to America, came to tea with Ellie.”

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December 1, 2019July 8, 2019

WEEK 108: (1st – 7th December 1919)

“Kathleen Hicks came to supper & was very interesting. She approved the idea of getting C. na mb. Branches to demand that the vacant seats in Dáil Éireann should be filled by women, or attempted to be.”

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March 31, 2019December 17, 2018

WEEK 73: (31st March – 6th April 1919)

“Fine bright day. We took a long walk up the hill on the sunny side of the valley opposite where the snow was, and had a splendid view of country, including a lovely snowy mountain from the top of it. There were carts going up the hill whose drivers were very decent in resting the horses crossways on the slope.”

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