WHILE the preparations are in full swing for Tuesday’s St Patrick’s Day parade, we discovered this letter (below) from patriot, Austin Stack, sent 99 years ago today, organising a march of Irish Volunteers on the national holiday.
The letter, sent to F.H. O’Donnell, Honorary Secretary of the Irish National Volunteers, invites the corps to take part in a ‘demonstration’ from the ’98 memorial on St Patrick’s Day.
We discovered the letter thanks to a tweet sent earlier today by ‘1916 Letters’ (see tweet below).
Just a month later Austin Stack would be involved in events that would change the course of Irish history.
Have a read of the letter here…
Planning #StPatricksDay in #Tralee #Kerry… Letter from Austin Stack, 13 Mar, 1916 (@dfarchives) http://t.co/JfcdImKs7l #OnThisDay
— Letters1916 (@Letters1916) March 13, 2015