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But you will understand in such moments heart speaks to heart. At 3.30. this morning we (Dick Barrett, Cory Cornor & C. Kelvey) & I were informed that we were to be exceeded as a reprisal\". Welcome be the will of God, for Ireland is in his keeping despite foreign monarchs & treaties though untortedly of the greatest honour that can be paid to an Irish man or woman, I go to you Yone & Cummett, the Humanis, tom Clarke, Connolly, Pearse, Kevin Barry, and Childers. My last thoughts will be on God, and Ireland & you. You must not grieve, & other Darling, once before you thought you had given me to Ireland the reality has now come. You will hear this", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=66,546,1204,64" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-7", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "as you love all the afflictions the Cause of Ireland has brought you - nobely obviously. It is a some trial for you, but that great courageous soul of yours will reforce, for I die for the truth.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1347,30,1209,70" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-8", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Life is only for a little while & are shall be united thereafter. I would write to Barney separately, but also! he is not at home. That he will be brave, I know: that he will persevere until the wrong is replied & the shadow of shame is helped from our country, I do not doubt.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1614,311,930,57" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-9", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I say I'd bless & protect him and give him the courage, protection & wisdom necessary to adhere to truth, Honour, and principle through you I, send to him my fondeat love.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1359,728,1134,68" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-10", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Through you I also send another message. It is this, set no thought of reverge or reprisals animate Republicans because of our deaths. We die for the truth. Vidication will come, the mists will be cleared away & brothers in blood will, before long. The brothers once more in arms against the oppressors of our country - Imperialist England. In this belief I do happy, forgiving all as I hope to be for given.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=1630,974,824,62" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-11", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The sat the people of Ireland must treat is straight & true, though narrow. Only by following it can they be new. It is a lard road, but it is the road our saviors followed - the Road of Sacrifice.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2648,42,1159,79" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-12", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The Republic lives; our duties make that accrually.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2667,267,1146,99" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-13", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I had hopes that some day I might rest in some quiet place - beside Grand Father & Grandmother in Castletown (Lo. Wesford), not amidst the wordly powers of Elsamerin buff if it is to be the phrase clay, it is all the sweetest for many of our best be here.....", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2784,359,998,64" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-14", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Go to a lis Pearse, she will comfort you. I have had the explain to see me. It is sad but I cannot agree to accept the Bishop's Pastoral", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2633,795,1165,68" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-15", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "My conscience is quite clear, thank God. With the old Falls I believe that \"those who die for Ireland have no use of prayer\"", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2863,941,956,70" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-16", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "God bless, protect, & comfort you.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2927,1190,848,82" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-17", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Your loving son", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=3251,1282,449,172" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-18", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "\"J. J.\"", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=3251,1282,449,172" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/irish-capuchin-archives-3/55979/p01.json#anno-19", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Jim", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=3251,1282,449,172" } ] } ] } ], "metadata": [ { "label": { "en": [ "Level of description" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Item" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Date" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "8 Dec. 1922" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Reference" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "21" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Extent and medium" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "3 pp; Manuscript" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Scope and content" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Letter from Liam Mellows, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, to his mother. Written at 5 a.m., shortly before his execution. It reads: ‘The time is short and much I would like to say must go unsaid. But you will understand in such moments heart speaks to heart. At 3.30 this morning we (Dick Barrett, Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey and I) were informed that we were to be “executed as a reprisal”. … I go to join Tone and Emmett, the Fenians, Tom Clarke, Connolly, Pearse, Kevin Barry and Childers. My last thoughts will be on God, and Ireland, and you. …. I had hopes that some day I might rest in some quiet place – beside Grandfather and Grandmother in Castletown (Co. Wexford), not amidst the wordly pomps [sic] of Glasnevin but if it is to be the prison clay, it is all the sweeter for many of our best lie here …’." ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "General note" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Mellows, O’Connor, McKelvey and Barrett were executed by firing squad on 8 December 1922, in reprisal for the shooting of Seán Hales, TD. This original letter came into the possession of a Mrs Keating, Cathedral Road, Cork. She gave it to her friend, Cormac McCarthy, who subsequently gave it (in 1982) to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (1915-1997). " ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Repository" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Context" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > The Papers of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. > Correspondence > Correspondence with Republican Prisoners" ] } } ], "summary": { "en": [ "Letter from Liam Mellows, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, to his mother. Written at 5 a.m., shortly before his execution. It reads: ‘The time is short and much I would like to say must go unsaid. But you will understand in such moments heart speaks to heart. At 3.30 this morning we (Dick Barrett, Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey and I) were informed that we were to be “executed as a reprisal”. … I go to join Tone and Emmett, the Fenians, Tom Clarke, Connolly, Pearse, Kevin Barry and Childers. My last though" ] }, "thumbnail": [ { "id": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTirish-capuchin-archives-3T55979.jpg/full/200,/0/default.jpg", "type": "Image", "format": "image/jpeg" } ], "navDate": "1922-01-01T00:00:00Z" }