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Lynch (Diarmuid), IRB and Easter Rising Veteran. A very good collection of letters and documents, evidently from his own collection and that of his widow, including: – TLS to Mrs. Lynch, Jan. 1951, from (Lt. Gen.) M.J. Costello, on behalf of a group proposing to acquire Diarmuid Lynch’s papers with a view to publication; – Carbon copy of Mrs. Lynch’s reply accepting the proposal; – Printed document relating to a Diarmuid Lynch memorial; – Pre-printed British Field Service postcard to Mrs.Lynch from .A. Farrell, 7th Leinster Regt. (relative?), wishing her a Happy Christmas, 1916; – Typescript copy of letter from Diarmuid Lynch to American Ambassador, London, April 1918, concerning his request to go to the U.S.A. on deportation from the U.K., endorsed at head by Diarmuid Lynch; – Typescript copy of letter from Lynch to Terence Mac Swiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, July 1920, concerning captured letters; – Typescript signed copy of Lynch’s letter of resignation of his Dail seat, July 1920, addressed to ‘the People of South East Cork’; and some related items; – Signed typescript copy of Lynch’s letter to Hon. (Judge) Daniel Cohalan, New York, declining an invitation to meet Wm. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State; and some other letters of the period; – Carbon copy of letter to Mrs. S.T. Rogers of Sutton, concerning documents entrusted to her by Michael Collins; – Various document s concerning Lynch’s application under the Military Service Pensions Act, etc.; with copies of testimonials; – A collection of acknowledgements of 1916 material lodged by Lynch with the National Museum; – An American legal opinion concerning Lynch’s change of his name from Christopher to Diarmuid, 1910; also several certificates and other documents, in a file. Diarmuid Lynch (1878 – 1950) was a central figure in the I.R.B. and Republican politics generally from1907, when he returned to Ireland after a period working in the United States, until the 1930s. Born in Co. Cork, he joined the Gaelic League in New York; after his return to Ireland he became a member of the Supreme Council of the I.R.B. He was involved in the failed arms landing from the ‘Aud’ in 1915, and fought in the GPO during the 1916 Rising. He was jailed in England until 1917. On his release he became Sinn Fein controller of food, and had pigs slaughtered for home consumption instead of allowing their export to England. After another arrest he was deported, and went to the United States where he had residence rights. He became national secretary of the Friends of Irish Freedom, and was involved with De Valera’s various American campaigns. He opposed the Anglo-irish Treaty. On his return to Ireland in the 1930’s, he collected material from survivors of the Rising, later published as ‘The IRB and the 1916 Insurrection.’ As a collection, w.a.f. (1)