Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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He hopes Madden is better and says he wrote Lane about him ‘but could extract no reply from you. Are you dead and if so why did you die ?’. 4pp 21 19 December 1846 Letter, from ‘CGD’ (Charles Gavan Duffy), to Denny Lane, Sydney Parade, Cork. ‘My dear Lane. There is no denying you are a terrible scamp – but… I forgive you’. Says they have done exactly in the Nation as Lane recommended before Lane’s advice arrived. Duffy continues that Barry’s letter arrived after the first edition of the Nation was printed and that he will print it next week, but he considers it bad policy as ‘we have OC [Daniel O’Connell] now in the wrong – let us keep him there’. Duffy is concerned that ‘some Seceders might go back without getting reforms…Let Young Ireland like Wordsworth’s cloud “move together or not move at all”’. Requests Lane to send speedily a paper for “The Irish Party” which is sadly neglected by all Volunteers. Asks Lane to show this letter to Barry, as Mitchel is away and he doesn’t have time to write to Barry. Concludes ‘The verses by Brennan are weak…but I have seen good things from him in the Southern Reporter…’. With signet seal of Duffy. 4pp 22 29 March 1848 Printed circular letter from Charles Gavan Duffy, Chairman of Sub- Committee, Irish Confederation, to Denny Lane Esquire, Cork. States that the Council of the Confederation are of the opinion that a ‘speedy election of the proposed Council of Three Hundred has become necessary’, in order to provide the country with some organ which could ‘speak on behalf of the entire people’, and to negotiate ‘our liberties with England, if the example of European Events has yet awakened her to the necessity of concession – and if not…to enforce our rights’. Enquires whether a joint Meeting of Repealers could be held in the local district, ‘The country is beginning to look to the Assembly with hope…and this feeling must not be let die away…’. 1p 23 20 April 1849

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