Letter from Ernie O'Malley to Thomas MacGreevy. 5 April 1939.
Telephone 43233
Bernis Cafe
54,
Lower O'Connell Street,
Dublin.
5/4/39
Dear Tomás,
I rushed up to Dublin to help Helen drive the car as the dirt road was long. I was hoping that any letter of yours would have been forwarded to me from Burrishoole Burrishoole Lodge, the O'Malley family country home, was probably built in the mid-nineteenth century on O'Malley family lands (although not of the immediate family) and had a fifteenth century castle at the end of the lawn overlooking two piers on the Burrishoole River, across from the ruins of the historic Dominican Burrishoole Abbey.note but the post is a slow one there and is held up for a day or so just to show that the Kingdom of Connaught has been reached. I am enclosing the fare so that there is no excuse.O'Malley had hoped MacGreevy would visit them at Christmas. MacGreevy was now invited for Easter, but from contextual evidence, it seems MacGreevy was not able to visit the O'Malleys. note
To-day Jack Yeats and I talked about you. He is a good soul, wise, human kind and we spoke of poetry and paint, that which there is no better combination.
Helen sends her very kindest regards. [p.1 verso]She is worried at present about the heading to this paper but my other letter to you is in the Library with my notebooks and if I have to tear it of I would feel I was writing to the wrong person.
Come on over and you'll write a few poems afterwards
affectionately
Earnán