francis ledwidge museum

A copy of original Christmas Card sent by Francis Ledwidge to his friend Matt McGoona from the Western Front during WW1. The greeting inside reads :- 'With best wishes for the Festive Season'. The verse on the back reads :- "Welcome all, another year, welcome yule! The five and twentieth of December, Good cause have we for to remember, in Bethlehem upon this morn, There was our blessed Saviour born. Joy,love and gratitude combine to hail the auspicious day. Then let us all rejoice amain On Christmas Day in the morning" (Postage and packaging inc in price.)

A copy of the beautiful poem that Francis wrote for Fr. Charles Henry Devas S.J.,D.S.O. WW1 Battalion Chaplain. The verse inside reads :- "Wishing you peace and joy at Christmas and happiness through all the coming year" ( Postage and packaging inc. in price).

Photo of Slane Hill with text on the inside:- "You are in Meath now,I suppose. If you go to Tara, go to Rath na Ri and look all around you from the hills of Drumcondrath in the the north to the plains of Enfield in the south, where Allen Bog begins, and remember me to every hill and wood and ruin, for my heart is there. If it is a clear day you will see Slane Hill blue and distant. Say I will come back again surely."....... (Extract from a letter written by Francis Ledwidge to his friend and fellow poet Katherine Tynan on 19th June 1917) Greeting on the opposite page reads:- Wishing you peace and joy at Christmas and happiness through all the coming year (price includes packaging and postage and each card measures 5" by 7")