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Moya Llewelyn Davies

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In 1890, when Moya's father was a journalist, Moya's mother Mary O’Connor, and four of her sisters – Annie, Aileen, Kathleen and Norah – died after eating contaminated mussels gathered on the seashore near where they lived in what became known as the Seapoint tragedy. Moya was violently ill, but
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Moya raised funds for Roger Casement's legal defence and later lobbied for the death sentence to be commuted. She was saluted as one of the 'fond ones' in a letter from Ruari,
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Davies travelled to London after a falling out with her stepmother six years later. She found work as a civil servant and a paid speaker for the
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and her home in Clontarf became one of Collins' many safe houses as he directed the war. Davies was arrested and imprisoned in 1920.
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denies this saying "Letters from him and a phonecall confirmed that he was born 24 December 1912, before his mother met Collins."
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claimed she was a stalker. It has been suggested that Michael Collins was the father of her son Richard. Historian
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Davies made a lasting contribution to Irish literature with a translation, with George Thomson, of the
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Davies said in later life that she and Collins had been lovers, but the historian
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BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 767
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In 1910, she married lawyer Crompton Llewelyn Davies, a brother of
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Letter to Margaret Gavan Duffy from Roger Casement, 2 August 1916.
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says that Davies claimed on the night that Collins learned that
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She died of cancer in Wicklow on 28 September 1943.
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Index

Irish Republican
Irish War of Independence
Gaelic
Irish Republican Brotherhood
James O'Connor
New Departure
Liberal Party
Arthur Llewelyn Davies
the boys who inspired
Richard
Roger Casement
Easter Rising
Michael Collins
War of Independence
Portmarnock
safe house
Peter Hart
Meda Ryan
Tim Pat Coogan
Éamon de Valera
Anglo-Irish Treaty
footnotes
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin
"'The Seapoint Tragedy'"
"Davies, Richard Llewelyn, Baron Llewelyn-Davies (1912–1981), architect"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/31369
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8

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