The Éamon Donnelly Collection (letter)

NMM:2011.29.1.44

Letter from Cahir Healy, Beechcliffe & Pier View Hotel, Bournemouth, to Éamon Donnelly. Dated 4 July 1939. Healy refers to the IRA campaign, the plan of Alderman Byrne of Dublin to form a battalion of orators to press the case for Irish unity, and Éamon de Valera's continuing "policy of masterly inactivity". He also writes:...

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Letter from Cahir Healy, Beechcliffe & Pier View Hotel, Bournemouth, to Éamon Donnelly. Dated 4 July 1939. Healy refers to the IRA campaign, the plan of Alderman Byrne of Dublin to form a battalion of orators to press the case for Irish unity, and Éamon de Valera's continuing "policy of masterly inactivity". He also writes: "I think forcing a fight with fellow Nats wrong in principle, even tho they may be wrong in tactics."