letter / Fleming Family

Letter, addressed to Michael Fleming at Clarenbridge, Co. Galway, from Euston Station, Sunday 7.40. Undated. Writer expresses regret at missing seeing Fleming and the rest of the men before their journey. Probably refers to the transport of Irish prisoners back to Ireland following their internment in England, 1917. 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.;