Item 6 - Copy letters of Fr. E.F. Murnane re Roger Casement

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IE CA CP/3/6/6

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Copy letters of Fr. E.F. Murnane re Roger Casement

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  • 16 July 1916-Aug. 1917 (Creation)

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2 pp; Typescript

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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)

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Copy letter from Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to Fr. E.F. Murnane dated 16 July 1916. With a copy extract from a letter from Fr. Murnane, Presbytery, Dockhead, [Bermondsey, London, S.E.], to George Gavan Duffy (Aug. 1917). The extract reads ‘He [Casement] faced death like a gallant Irish gentleman with the added courage and confidence of a good catholic. He talked freely of his death and was looking forward to his confession …’. The copy file concludes with a copy extract from a letter from Fr. James Carey, prison chaplain, giving a brief account of Casement’s piety before his execution.

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See Papers of Sir Roger Casement (National Library of Ireland, Collection List no. A 15, Roger Casement Papers: MS 13,073-MS 13,092). https://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/A015_Casement.pdf

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