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Lot 306 1923 (18 November) Kilmainham Jail Civil War hunger strike letter
10 by 8 in.
An interesting single page unsigned manuscript letter dated Sunday morning 18 November 1923 and written by an IRA hunger striker. Contents include reference to Cardinal Logue's letter to his diocese and the opinions of hunger strikers "if at anytime we should receive a reasonable offer for the safety of our lives and those of our comrades, we will not throw it back in their faces. It is not to humiliate our political or national opponents that we are on hunger strike... we don't want to parade our corpses or those of our comrades for a political show, all we demand is freedom and we stand or fall by that."
An interesting single page unsigned manuscript letter dated Sunday morning 18 November 1923 and written by an IRA hunger striker. Contents include reference to Cardinal Logue's letter to his diocese and the opinions of hunger strikers "if at anytime we should receive a reasonable offer for the safety of our lives and those of our comrades, we will not throw it back in their faces. It is not to humiliate our political or national opponents that we are on hunger strike... we don't want to parade our corpses or those of our comrades for a political show, all we demand is freedom and we stand or fall by that."
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