![Eamon de Valera by National Photo Company [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.](/assets/Eamon_de_Valera_c_1922-30_595.jpg)
As well as providing an insight into the workings of the IRB and their plans for the Rising, this letter from Patrick Pearse to Eamon de Valera can be seen as a memento of a significant moment in de Valera’s life.
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This From the Archives post features an extract from the minute book of the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin, February 1915.
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Three documents from the Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald Papers (UCD Archives) released as part of our From the Archives Centenary Special. Includes a letter from GB Shaw.
Read More![Col. Maurice Moore to ‘Lord Mayor’ [Lorcan Sherlock], 25 December 1914](/assets/p102-353-002_595.jpg)
To round out this year’s ‘From the Archives’ series, December’s instalment finds Col. Maurice Moore of the pro-Redmond National Volunteers taking a moment after his Christmas dinner to press on with his plans to arm and equip the National Volunteers.
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This month’s ‘From the Archives’ document is an extract from the minute book of the (Irish) Belgian Refugees Committee, established in October 1914 as part of the wider British response to the flow of civilian refugees flooding out of Belgium in the weeks after the country became the epicentre of the twentieth century’s first global conflict.
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