On the death of Joe Stanley in 1950 among the many letters of condolences received was a voice from the distant past March 1916 - Seamas O Neill the man who wrote the "offending" article in An Gael in March 1916 that led to the first British raid and closure of the Gaelic Press.
" Oh what is is to be young " - he laments in his letter of condolence to Annie Stanley remarking that he had never met her but had met Maire Nic Siubhlaigh in 1917.