Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front

• March 28, 2017 17:58:20 Lucas Diaz

  the Duke of Wellington Hotel early on saturday

  but he was at away as it is the half holiday so Mrs

  Lynch the owner asked if I knew him. I said

  I knew him very well, then she asked where I

  came from so I told her, she asked me if I knew

  Murroc I said I did then she said she came

  from Newport. Then she told me that Willie

  Ryan wouldn't be back until six oclock, and

  said I was to be back then. I called at 6 oc

  and she met me in the bar and I had to go up

  stairs to the dining saloon. There I met him

  and he having his tea and I had to have tea

  also. He was greatly surprised when I walked

  in to him as Mrs Lynch as Mrs L never

  mentioned to him that I had called. I also

  met his brother a school teacher and several

  other men from Limerick and Tipperary. After

  tea we were talking about the country around

  at home and all that sort of things. Mrs Lynch

  and her husband and the others wouldn't let me go

  back to the boat so I slept there that night, and

  had breakfast and dinner there next day Sunday. 
  
  After dinner they went visiting friends in the

  country about thirty miles outside the city and

  I had to go too, as Mrs Lynch wouldn't let me 

  
  

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• November 7, 2016 16:17:05 Adrian Murphy (Ireland)
  the Duke of Wellington Hotel early on saturday but he was at away as it is the half holiday so Mrs Lynch the owner asked if I know him. I said I knew him very well, then she asked where I came from so I told her, she asked me if I know Murroc I said I did then she said she came from Newport. Then she told me that Willie Ryan wouldn't be back until six oclock, and said I was to be back then. I called 6 oc and she met me in the bar and I had to go up stairs to the dining saloon. There I met him and he having his tea and I had to have tea also. He was greatly surprised when I walked in to him as Mrs Lynch as Mrs L never mentioned to him that I had called. I also met his brother a school teacher and severl other men from Limerick and Tipperary. After tea we were talking about hte country around at home and all that sort of things. Mrs Lynch and her husband and the others wouldn't let me go back to the boat so I slept there that night and had breakfast and dinner there the next day Sunday. 
  
  After dinner they went visiting firends in the country about thirty miles outside the city and I had to go too, as Mrs Lynch wouldn't let me 
  

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• November 7, 2016 16:15:07 Adrian Murphy (Ireland)
  the Duke of Wellington Hotel early on saturday but he was at away as it is the half holiday so Mrs Lynch the owner asked if I know him. I said I knew him very well, then she asked where I came from so I told her, she asked me if I know Murroc I said I did then she said she came from Newport. Then she told me that Willie Ryan wouldn't be back until six oclock, and said I was to be back then. I called 6 oc and she met me in the bar and I had to go up stairs to the dining saloon. There I met him and he having his tea and I had to have tea also. He was greatly surprised when I walked in to him as Mrs Lynch as Mrs L never
  

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