Leaving Dublin

I’ve just left Dublin heading to Galway. Fortunately I managed to get into Kilmainham Gaol where I found this letter in the small museum there. It is a letter from James Fisher to his mother; written just before his execution. While maybe not as elegantly written as Robert Emmet’s Speach, it is just as poignant. James was the age of some of my students. He was among the last to be executed here in 1922 at the start of the Irish civil war.