Letter from Sir Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to Father Eamon Murnane, about the state of his mental health before and after his trial,
1916 July 3.
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| Summary: | Writes: "I have often thought of you and your visits - and the books you left for me. I am hoping to get them here to read, and have asked for them today. I should like to see you here but I can arrange no visits here - altho' I think you can get leave to come, but not to see me alone ... I was so overwrought and unbalanced before my trial. I hardly know what I was doing or saying or thinking often and lived in a kind of dream - or dreadful nightmare half my days. I am much better now and happier that that terrible ordeal is over and am sleeping better than I have done since I was a boy. Before I had all sorts of things on my mind - to trouble me - now I have none, and although I am in this cell I feel happier than I have been for a very long time - except when I think of Ireland. My last sight of Ireland before the war was Tory Island, away in the far northwest; and my last sight of it since the war was that awful two days of Good Friday and Easter Saturday when I was captured, and carried off from McKenna's Fort to Dublin." |
| In collection: | Pearse Papers, 1870-1932 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Notes: | Inscribed on prison regulation paper. Envelope bearing address "Rev. Father Murnane, / Dock Head, / Bermondsey / S.E." Physical description: 1 item (4 pages) with envelope. more |
| Arrangement: | Item. |
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Letter from Sir Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to Father Eamon Murnane, about the state of his mental health before and after his trial,
1916 July 3.
| In Collection: | Pearse Papers, 1870-1932 |
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| Description: | Writes: "I have often thought of you and your visits - and the books you left for me. I am hoping to get them here to read, and have asked for them today. I should like to see you here but I can arrange no visits here - altho' I think you can get leave to come, but not to see me alone ... I was so overwrought and unbalanced before my trial. I hardly know what I was doing or saying or thinking often and lived in a kind of dream - or dreadful nightmare half my days. I am much better now and happier that that terrible ordeal is over and am sleeping better than I have done since I was a boy. Before I had all sorts of things on my mind - to trouble me - now I have none, and although I am in this cell I feel happier than I have been for a very long time - except when I think of Ireland. My last sight of Ireland before the war was Tory Island, away in the far northwest; and my last sight of it since the war was that awful two days of Good Friday and Easter Saturday when I was captured, and carried off from McKenna's Fort to Dublin." |
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| Language: | English |
| Extent: | 1 item (4 pages) with envelope. |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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MS 17,044/1
(Manuscripts Reading Room) |
| Rights: | Reproduction rights owned by National Library of Ireland. |