"The Book of Cells"

In the 1920’s in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin a diary was kept for the last words of condemned Irish republican prisoners

The words of Liam Mellows, written Dec. 8, 1922, the day Mellows was executed by firing squad with three others: "God bless you boys and may he give you courage, fortitude and wisdom to suffer and endure all for Ireland's sake."
Patrick Hennessey wrote on Sept. 1, 1923: " ... I am leaving my cigarettes to be divided among the Clare section ... a cigarette to each one will go a long way. I forgive my enemies ... from the bottom of my heart. ..."