“My great gran-uncle Thomas J Williams. A journalist with the Leinster Leader for twenty years. In 1932 he was appointed Collector of Taxes in Dublin. He was arrested following Easter Monday 1916 in Naas, was later interned in Rath Camp on the Curragh and a prison ship during the War of Independence and again briefly by Free State forces in 1923. He lived in Belgrave Sq. and Cowper Road, Rathmines, and finally, in Ballybrack. He died in 1951. A funeral bouquet was accompanied by a card which read: To a brave and loyal comrade. Naas/Kill I.R.A.” My Mum loved him very much.””
(1936)
Submitted by Jonathan Korowicz