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NAME 
BURKE, MARGARET AND FR TOM
  
IDENTITY STATEMENT  
Reference code: IE UCDAD P30
Title:Papers of Margaret and Fr Tom Burke
Dates: 1916–43
Level of description: Fonds
Extent: 1 box
  
CONTEXT 
Biographical History  

From Castlegar, County Galway, the Burke family were involved in the independence movement, Fr Tom serving as chaplain to the Galway Brigade of the Irish Volunteers/IRA, his sister Margaret being a member of Cumann na mBan. Anti-Treaty, she was interned in the North Dublin Union Internment Camp.

  
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE 
Scope and Content 

Irish Volunteers and IRA Galway Brigade: reports, communications and general organisational documents including letters from Michael Collins  to its chaplain, Fr Tom Burke (1918–20).

Letters from Margaret Burke to her family while interned in the North Dublin Union (1923). Letters from Thomas Derrig, Hare Park Internment Camp and Mountjoy Jail, Dublin, to Catherine Burke Donovan (1923–24).

Printed matter and photographs relating to the Civil War and the hunger strikes (1922–23).

  
CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE
Access:Available by appointment to holders of a UCDAD reader's ticket.
Language:English
Finding aid:Descriptive catalogue

 


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