I.R.A. Prisoners: A large file containing 100 documents concerning IRA prisoners in Ireland and England, and efforts to improve their conditions or secure their release, 1923 - 31, including...

I.R.A. Prisoners: A large file containing 100 documents concerning IRA prisoners in Ireland and England, and efforts to improve their conditions or secure their release, 1923 - 31, including printed leaflets calling attention to their situation, and a collection of related news cuttings. Includes a cyclostyled appeal on IRA notepaper from Conchubhar and Luasaigh, Director of Medical Services, 23 October, 1923, concerning 'the imminent disaster of close on 8000 prisoners hunger-striking to death'; copies of communications to D(irector) M(edical) S (ervice) from prisoners in various camps about their treatment, Dec. 1923; manuscript and typescript lists of Republican prisoners in various jails 1928 - 29; correspondence about Irish prisoners in Britain; a manuscript report on Irish prisoners in Maidstone, Aug. 1929; correspondence from Cumann na mBan about prisoners; a circular to 'All Members of the Free State Usurping Parliament,' March 1930; and a multiplicity of similar items. As an Archive, w.a.f. Important lot. Provenance: Maurice (Moss) Twomey Archive. (1)

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