Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 525
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wrote a nice letter of congratulation a few days ago, & so did Judge Rich, Macrae, Gus Hooke, & Mary Strickland. She said she didn't know your address, or she would have written to you direct. You might send her a note in acknowledgement to Villa Bologna, Malta.
We are glad to hear that after the sickener you got at Witney you are with a much better crowd at Gosport, & that the Colonel & O.C. both think well of you & have plans for your future.
Today the enquiry has been started by Judge Harvey as to the propriety of the internment of seven Sinn Feiners here, & judging by the stuff published this evening they are in the right place in Liverpool or Holdsworthy internment camp. Even in our own home here, the domestics fight like tomcats on the everlasting Orange & Green questions, & Mother has recently lost a cook & a housemaid, who refused to live with each other owing to the divergence of their views.
O'Reilly has routed the loyalists at St John's College. He took the chair at a meeting of fellows last Thursday, & when any of the bunch began to argue about anything (I mean Heydon, Mullins, Flannery, Watt, Joe Flynn, Dr. Burfitt, or F.L.V. Coffey) Mick Meagher moved that "the question be put", & the other nine present (Revs. Coonan, Moynagh, White, McDermott & another priest, with