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DOD/A15296-E4
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| Title |
Intelligence - Childers, Erskine
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| Date |
1922-1924 |
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File includes: typed copy letter/report dated 5 August 1922 addressed to "Commander in Chief" enclosing extract from despatch received from Liverpool reporting attempts by "Mr. Childers" to "...get away to U.S.A.", arrival from Dublin of Cumann na mBan Officer Bridie Mullen with dispatches for Childers, and reports of plan by [anti-Treaty IRA forces] "...to attack Dublin while the troops are in the Country..."; handwritten note dated 5 August 1922 addressed to "C. in C." from D D/I regarding what should be done about Childers as writer wants to send word to Liverpool "tonight"; typed letter dated 7 August 1922 initialled "M O C, General. Commander in Chief" and addressed to "Director of Intelligence" requesting update on "Childers' case" and advising that " The idea that would be most suitable would be that he should be arrested as a stow-away."; typed phone message from Oriel House dated 3 September on headed Office of Director of Intelligence notepaper reporting that Erskine Childers and Countess [Markievicz] are at present addressing a meeting in Beresford Place; copy letter dated 6 September 1922 on behalf of the Director of Intelligence to Joseph H. Dixon, Solicitor stating that "...none of the papers found on Scanlon can be returned."; original typed signed and copy typed letter dated 10 November 1922 from Captain [Tomás MacAosha], Office of Director of Intelligence to "Adjutant General" stating that writer has been instructed by [the Director of Intelligence] to enclose file and papers regarding Erskine Childers and to state that they do not "...supply anything which would form the basis of a charge"; original signed typed and copy typed correspondence (15 - 18 December 1922) between Major General Gearoid O'Sullivan and the Office of the Director of Intelligence regarding the Power of Attorney of Erskine Childers; original signed handwritten and copy typed material (15 December 1922) regarding request from the solicitor for Mrs Childers for the return of items taken from Erskine Childers at the time of his arrest; undated typed copy extract of details relating to arrest, charging, sentencing and execution of Erskine Childers; typed copy document entitled "Copy of document captured at Coppeen, Ballineen, 8/5/23" - document is typed copy letter dated 10 August 1922 from David L. Robinson to the General Officer Commanding 1st Southern Division querying whether [the anti-Treaty IRA forces] should reimburse themselves from the Provincial Bank in Kenmare following the Provisional Government's appropriating of "... large sums of our money from the National Land Bank ."; typed copy document entitled "Copy of document captured at Coppeen. 8/5/23" - document is typed copy letter dated 25 August 1922 from E. Childers, Staff Captain Publicity, to O/C 1st Southern Division regarding outcomes of a meeting between the writer, the Director of Publicity G. H. Q. and the O/C Publicity 1st Southern Division, and the contents of an enclosed letter to the recipient (not on file) in relation to communication with Cork, and the distribution of the "An Poblacht" newspaper, and stating that unless another car is allotted to publicity the writer does not see how [An Poblacht] can be carried on; typed copy document entitled "Document No.27 - Gouganne Barra Papers - Captured at Gouganne Barra, Co. Cork May '23" - document is typed copy of publicity accounts over the name of Maire NicSuibne and noting that copies are to be made for the files of Erskine Childers, Sean McCarthy, Miss Barry, A. MacS. and Maire NicSuibne; newspaper cutting dated 25 November 1922 from "The Times" (London) newspaper of article entitled "The Fate of Erskine Childers" reporting the latter's execution; newspaper cutting from the "Sinn Fein" nespaper dated 24 November 1923 with in memoriam notice for and photograph of Erskine Childers, and reproducing extracts from letter dated 20 November 1922 from Erskine Childers to his wife while awaiting execution; undated unidentified newspaper article entiled "Erskine Childers - A Glance at his Life" attributed to "Ex-Internee".
File also includes recycled file cover: P.R./401/24 Patrick Jennings Carrigderry, Milltown, Tuam, Co. Galway - file cover is stamped "PRISONERS"
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