Captain Redmond

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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September 9, 2018October 15, 2018

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…”

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August 19, 2018October 11, 2018

WEEK 47: (19th – 25th August 1918)

“I went on to Mrs S.S then and spent an hour with her. She had had a very impudent letter from Dillon that morning, counselling her to avoid politics & confine herself to her private affairs or she might be arrested again, & “her next adventure might be her last”. She was partly amused & partly insulted at it. He did a good deal to help her when she was arrested, but he appears to have lost what mind he ever had.”

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March 18, 2018October 8, 2018

WEEK 25: (18th – 23rd March 1918)

“Dorothea had a visit from a girl named Minnie Doyle who was looking for Edward Jacob – she had a baby in New Ross workhouse when she was 16, through absolutely no fault of her own, & being left all alone at the time for hours after, the baby died & she was tried for murdering it, but acquitted, whereupon she was put into the Good Sheppard convent here, & very badly treated there according to her account. Edward Jacob had visited her in prison, & told her to apply to him when she came out, but when she asked the nuns for the wherewithal to write to him, they wdn’t give it.”

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