7 - Letter from [T. Martin?] to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing artefacts found in the General Post Office

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Letter from [T. Martin?] to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing artefacts found in the General Post Office

2 pp; Manuscript and artefact

Letter from [T. Martin?], 12 Trinity Street, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing an Irish Volunteer button. One is in brass with a harp decoration. Also enclosed is a uniform badge: I.V. (Irish Volunteers) with green enamel inlay, initials and central harp, the reverse stamped ‘P. Quinn & Co., Belfast’. The letter informed Fr. Aloysius that ‘in searching among the ruins of G.P.O. I found the enclosed. I thought it might interest you and took the liberty of sending it to you’.

Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) at https://repository.dri.ie/catalog/x346fb25j

See also the fragments of metal and assorted bullet cartridges reputedly taken from the destroyed shell of the General Post Office. IE CA IR-1-6-2-A. https://catholicarchives.ie/index.php/metal-debris-and-bullet-cartridges

ISAD(G) 2nd edition