On this day 1867 Emily was born at Windsor Terrace, Edenderry, County Offaly, then King’s County.

On this day one hundred years ago Emily turned 54. At the time a treaty between Ireland and Britain was in the process of being ironed out between both sides. But there was there was a lot more to do with many letters, telegrams and phone calls crisscrossed the Irish Sea until the situation came to a head in December. He spoke at an event in aid of Irish Republican Prisoners in Shelbourne Park, Dublin, that Emily if she was in Dublin at the time would have attended.

Sources

Derry Journal 25 September 1867

30 September 1921 – Freeman’s Journal – Dublin, Dublin, Republic o