Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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Letter, from Charles Gavan Duffy to Denny Lane, 4 Sydney Place, Cork. ‘I have been learning wisdom is a hard school…It has shattered me, but…I will be fit for service again’. Tells Lane he will ‘plunge into Munster’ in a few weeks and they will have a talk ‘de omnibus’. He will not revive the Nation in the interval and hopes Lane will not be in Paris when he is in Cork. Says he has not seen Madden. Postscript ‘You have not utterly abandoned Irish music and her sister arts I trust. I do not detect your hand in the Province’. 2pp 24 2 October 1849 Letter, From Charles Gavan Duffy to Denny Lane, Sydney Place, Cork. Marked ‘Private’. ‘Dan Callaghan we hear is dead – can Butt be made his successor ?...’. tells Lane that until he is prepared to represent Cork ‘there is no man you ought to be better content with…’. Butt would be a creditable member, worth considering ‘ in the present state of our parliamentary party…’. Butt would also have the trustees to avoid a contest and make his return easier than anyone else’s. 3pp

(iv) William Smith O’Brien (1847- 1848) (5 items)

25 29 January 1847 Letter, from William Smith O’Brien, M.P., London, to ‘My Dear Barry’, Michael Joseph Barry Esquire, Blackrock, Cork. Concerns the Irish Distilling industry and the Irish Confederation. Thanks Barry for his ‘very useful’ letter and says he has taken exactly the same view regarding distilling from sugar and importation of Rum at a reduced rate of duty. He has twice spoken on the subject in the House (House of Commons) but some of his observations were not reported. He could not see any sympathy for Irish distillers in the House and from Irish members, except Dan O’Callaghan ‘ to whom I made a direct appeal’. A deputation of distillers is in London but he warns that the ‘Scotch will also move’ so he must plan to make some impression, although the Chancellor of the Exchequer is very resolute in his proposal. O’Brien

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