letter / Fleming Family

Envelope, postmarked Galway 1922 and addressed to Joseph Fleming, prisoner at the Galway Jail. 'Refused' written at top. Two one penny stamps, George V overstamped with 'Rialtas Sealatach na hEireann 1922'. Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg Chriosta', belonging to Michael Fleming, and containing a number of letters, obituaries and other mementoes of the 1916 to the 1930s. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co. Galway, who participated in the 1916 Rising, were interned, and proceeded to fight in the War of Independence.;