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NAME 
O'BRENNAN, LILY
  
IDENTITY STATEMENT  
Reference code: IE UCDA P13
Title:Papers of Lily O'Brennan
Dates: 1922–23
Level of description: Fonds
Extent: 1 box
  
CONTEXT 
Biographical History  
A member of Cumann na mBan, Lily O'Brennan was on the secretarial staff at Hans Place, London, during the Treaty negotiations. Anti-Treaty, she served on the headquarters staff in Suffolk Street before being arrested and interned. Her sister Fanny married Eamonn Ceannt, a signatory to the 1916 Proclamation.
Archival History

Papers given by Lily O'Brennan's nephew, Ronan Ceannt, to Máire Comerford who deposited them in UCDA.

  
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE 
Scope and Content 

Letters, some censored, written to her sister, Fanny Ceannt, during her imprisonment in Mountjoy and Kilmainham jails and the North Dublin Union (1922–3) referring to prison conditions, the state of women on hunger strike, and contemporary political events; her jail diary (1922).

Letters received from Fanny Ceannt referring to censorship of correspondence, house raids and general civil war conditions.

Letters to Fanny Ceannt from Robert Barton in Mountjoy Jail and Hare Park Internment Camp (1922–3).

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

 


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