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We curate private paper collections documenting the modern Irish State; UCD; and many elements of the Franciscan manuscript patrimony. www.ucd.ie/archives
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December 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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This document is an example of making the best of a challenging Christmas! Menu for Christmas Day 1918 from the ‘Royal Hotel Lincoln’ (Lincoln Jail) written on blue prison paper. Signed by Eamon de Valera and sixteen other prisoners. 2/2
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Transcription of Matty MacDonald's account of the killing of Captain G.T. Baggally on Bloody Sunday, #OTD 1920.

The O'Malley Notebooks are available to consult by appointment in our reading room. 2/2
“We knocked at the front door a maid came along have a letter from the Castle will you deliver this not to Captain Bagelly a one legged man. The maid pointing and in we went. We tapped at the door, opened it and walked in. There were 3 of us. Bagelly was in bed. Lemass, Jimmy and I. I was kind of scared. ‘Captain Bagelly?’ ‘That’s my name.’ ‘I suppose you know what we came for. We came for you.’ He was the Judge Advocate General. ‘I suppose you’ve come for my guns’ he said. One of us, Jimmy Brennan hid it under the bed and he reached behind for it… Slugs and a little more was our reply. ‘Get up.’ He was in pyjamas. Lemass and Jimmy and I fired 2 in the head from the 3 guns. I heard maids screaming afterwards but I was told she was alright. On the ground floor was Jack Foley. A fellow came out with a towel in pyjamas for a bath and Jack stuck him up and he was balls naked. Thinking he was a lodger but he was another British army officer and how we didn’t know about him, we hadn’t any orders about him.” Matty MacDonald, Ernie O’Malley Notebooks, UCDA P17b/105
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM