“I finished typing Callaghan this Thursday. Tom and Dorothea say it is good in the main, & that the relations of Callaghan & Frances to each other are good, but they object strongly to the ghost, and pick out all sorts of things, like the mention of certain superstitions & of the stones in Frances’s ring, which they think will be considered silly & which may go against it with Maxwell I shouldn’t have thought a publisher would bother to object to such things.”
WEEK 112: (29th Dec – 4th January 1920)
“I went to St Declan’s in the afternoon & D. made various comments on the last bit of Callaghan but one – some helpful & all interesting. She said one remark of his to Dr Morrin just after the trail reminded her when he was about 17. She said there were some likenesses between Tony & him”
WEEK 111: (22nd – 28th December 1919)
“Fine cold day. Aunt H. gave me a new umbrella & some chocolate. W. Waring sent me a little round photo frame, but the glass arrived cracked, J. Webb sent me a queer little tiny pen in a case, Aunt Maggie some lovely handkerchiefs, Aunt Bessie a handkerchief, Helen a cobwebly little handkerchief case. T. & D. a fine big muffler of the sort that’s going now, & Nancy a very grand Browning calendar. I have Aunt H. The Ship that Sailed too Soon & a photoframe, & Uncle E. green grapes. Ben sent me Darrell Figgis’s Byeways of Study, & I read most of it that morning. The articles on Parnell & H. O’Neill’s terms were very interesting. “
WEEK 50: (9th – 15th September 1918)
“They said Captain Redmond was married years ago to an actress who doesn’t live with him, so he can’t be going to marry one of Martin Murphy’s daughters. I asked Mrs P. could a Catholic remain in the Church who married outside rites or after being divorced (á propos Fitzgerald of the Island & also Callaghan) & she said no…”
WEEK 44: (29th – 4th August 1918)
“There was a gen. meeting at the Fianna hall, we arranged to have only one night a week till the autumn, & Angela Quinn wanted to resign because she said she seemed to be an eyesore to some of the girls, but I got her to say she wd reconsider it. Girls are the devil.” Continue reading “WEEK 44: (29th – 4th August 1918)”