During the period 1948-1951Ernie O’Malley conducted
interviews with around 400 of his former colleagues from the revolutionary
period concerning their experiences during the time. The handwritten
transcripts of these interviews are contained in 53 notebooks which are held in
the UCD
achives. Liam Langley gave a number
of interviews to O’Malley, the following is an extract from one of the
interviews. It is concerned with
imprisonment post 1916.
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| Galway Jail Record |
‘In
1916 in Richmond Barracks I met Austin
and Terry Mac. Austin Stack was in another room. He was terribly worried about the the
volunteers, Con Keating, Daniel Sheehan and Charlie Monahan who had been
drowned in the car in Kerry. Desmond
Fitzgerald was also there he was
well dressed. He was complaining about
the untidy condition of the Galway men and about their being uncouth, but Liam
Mellows had already warned me of what to expect from Desmond Fitzgerald. Joe Mac Bride I met there, and we became good
friends, we went to Wakefield together. For a week we had free association, but
4 of us were picked out and were put into solitary confinement in a basement in
another wing of the goal. Conor Deere
of Goulds Cross Clonoulty Tipperary, Joe MacBride, Terry
Mac Sweeney and myself.
