Postcard from Thomas Ashe to Thomas Peppard
Postcard from Thomas Ashe to Thomas Peppard, writing about canvassing in Clare. The front of the postcard features a picture. of the Cliffs of Moher.
Thomas Peppard, of Lusk, Dublin, joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914. He fought in the Rising as part of the Fingal Brigade. After the Rising he was court-martialled and sentenced to death, but this was later commuted to three years penal servitude.
Upon his release he rejoined the Volunteers under the command of Michael Collins and later served as a captain in the Free State Army.
Thomas ('Tom') Ashe, Commander of the Fingal battalion of the Irish Volunteers, was a major figure in the 1916 Easter Rising in the Dublin area. He was imprisoned in 1917 for speaking at a Sinn Féin meeting in Ballinalee, County Longford, and died on hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin on 25 September 1917.
Postcard donated by the family of Thomas Peppard.