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Dear Julia: Personal Reflections on 1916 and its Aftermath

By Dermot McEvoy and Rosemary Mahoney, Contributor
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by 2 Comments

A grandmother’s letters, passed down through two generations, offer a fascinating, and at times intimate, glimpse into the period following the 1916 Rising. Dermot McEvoy talks to Rosemary Mahoney“My maternal grandmother, Julia Frances Rohan (née Fraher), and her five sisters who emigrated to Boston from Ballylanders, County Limerick, were fervid Sinn Féiners. My grandmother … [Read more...] about Dear Julia: Personal Reflections on 1916 and its Aftermath

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