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            IE OCL P29 · Fonds · 1921-1924

            The autograph book originally belonged to John Lennon, of Killeenmore, Killeigh, and Harbour St, Tullamore. He was an internee of the Rath Internment Camp at the Curragh (1921) and later of Tintown Camp (1923). The album contains many Laois/Offaly signatories such as E. Forrestal, Tullamore (Rath); Bob Lennon, Killeigh (Rath); Frank Bulfin TD, Derrinlough, Birr (Rath); Seaghan Ó Dulchaointigh, Crinkle, Birr (Rath); J. G. Ross, Killeigh (Rath); Patrick J. Daly, Tullamore (Hut 31, Rath), Jimmie Egan, Henry Street, Tullamore (Hut 25, Rath), Denis Walsh, Tullamore (Hut 40, Rath); Séamus O’Faolain (Hut 12 Camp 3 Tintown), Patrick Boland, Ballycumber, (Camp 3 Tintown), Walter A. Mitchell (Camp 2 Tintown); Edward Dunne, Clonaslee (Camp 2, Tintown), Sean McGuinness TD, Kilbeggan, and P. Bracken, Clonaslee (Hut 12 Tintown). Later non-political entries dating from c. 1927 are by Maggie Corcoran (later Lennon) and her relatives and friends.

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            OCL P29 Lennon Page 36
            IE OCL P29/36 · Part · 24 September 1923
            Part of Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. Corcoran

            Quote from Pádraig Pearse transcribed by Pádraig Ó Catháin (Carlow), the Long Hut, Tintown Camp:

            'We know only one definition of freedom - it is Tone's definition, it is Mitchell's definition, it is Rossa's definition. Let no man blaspheme the cause which the dead generations of Ireland have served by calling it by any other name and definition, than by their name and definition.'

            OCL P29 Lennon Page 45
            IE OCL P29/45 · Part · 16 January 1924
            Part of Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. Corcoran

            Verse transcribed by Walter A. Mitchell (Rahan, Offaly), Hut 3, Tintown No.2 Camp:

            Just a greeting from a comrade
            Who lies in chains with you
            To show you that a gloomy past
            Did not our souls subdue
            May all the pleasures which this world
            To freeman's life, doth give
            Be yours in all your future days
            When slaves no more shall live.'

            OCL P29 Lennon Page 47
            IE OCL P29/47 · Part · 8 October 1923
            Part of Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. Corcoran

            Quote from a parody of Thomas Campbell's 'The Exile of Erin' transcribed by Liam Ó [Dulchaointigh], Tintown No 3 Camp, who ascribes this version to Rudyard Kipling:

            'There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin
            the dew on his thin robes was heavy and chill
            Ere the dust from his brogues he fully had shaken
            He was Member of Parliament introducing a Bill.

            OCL P29 Lennon Page 55
            IE OCL P29/55 · Part · 9 August 1921
            Part of Autograph book of John Lennon/Maggie B. Corcoran

            Verses transcribed Padraic Ó Briain, Rath Camp:

            They lost! But O! They conquer
            These men who their land would save
            A firing party at break of day.
            And a tasty quick-lime grave.

            But think not of them with scorn
            Nor mourn for the cause they died
            This death saved Ireland's honour
            What mattered all else beside.

            We've been told twas a failure by those that ne'er understood
            How the new born soul of Erin was baptised in martyrs' blood
            And to all who crave for freedom, as the world its
            meaning know, I give them this little story
            The story of Glorious Easter Week.