Grace Bell

April 5, 2020February 18, 2020

WEEK 125: (5th – 11th April 1920)

“I went to the S.P.C.A. committee a.d. The new sec. O’Brien, is very plain, but I like him better than Robinson. Mrs Mortimor & Mr Brophy seem to have done a lot of good work between them. I made my suggestion about asking managers of national schools to instill some humanitarianism into the kids, but it was adjourned to next meeting…”

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December 8, 2019July 9, 2019

WEEK 109: (8th – 13th December 1919)

“She said that Seán O Floinn told her I was going to publish a book – I was a good deal horrified to find he knew. I found D. and T. had told him, & was partly pleased to have them in the wrong towards me for once – doing something silly that they had to apologize for, instead of the other way round.”

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November 24, 2019July 3, 2019

WEEK 107: (24th – 30th November 1919)

“Mrs Coade came to visit us in the afternoon, and was very interested in automatic writing. She never does it since an experience she had of a dark & miserable spirit writing through her & wanting relief, which she was able to give it through prayer. She read Hanna’s handwriting & gave a pretty true account of her – said she was very sensitive really & easily hurt but was able to conceal it.”

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May 26, 2019December 18, 2018

WEEK 81: (26th May – 1st June 1919)

“I went to a Cumann na mban meeting in the evening after visiting Waterpark & its lodge, & found there was to be a flag day for starving Germans all over Ireland, including Waterford, on the 15th of June. Most of the members didn’t seem eager to take part in it, not from any objection to the cause, but it seemed to be thought dangerous.”

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January 27, 2019November 5, 2019

WEEK 69: (27th Jan – 2nd February 1919)

“Tash came to afternoon tea, and Nancy too, so that they could see each other. They talked about houses, and Nancy scorned Waterford because there are not enough houses built here, & also scorned the notion of any distance being too far to walk to work. She told us more about her house than I ever knew before; it must be a frightful place, with a pump opposite the hall door, & no other water.”

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November 27, 2018November 29, 2018

WEEK 61: (27th – 8th December 1918)

“The evening was Fr O’ Flanagan’s big meeting; Brazil, who is the only man that ever thinks of getting women into the foreground, found that Miss Hoyne the organizer wd go in the waggonette, & introduced me to her, & we had a great evening. There was a noble procession, with torches, & we went around the quay to the hotel, Brazil in & out of the brake, regulating the volunteers when he was out, & waving a flag & whooping with a perfectly grave face when he was in.”

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November 18, 2018November 5, 2018

WEEK 60: (18th – 24th November 1918)

“Then I had to get some leaflets that had been printed for us, but I didn’t realise that they were ordered, or that they were so terrible contraband, so I didn’t succeed in getting them, being no conspirator. I went back & enquired about it at Harcourt St but they said they cd be got nowhere.”

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