Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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asks Barry to ‘report to me fully the state of feeling in Cork regarding the Irish Confederation and local organisations. He suggests that the Confederation should hold a grand meeting in Cork before the end of the year ‘…but in these times of disaster the fewer meetings there are except upon subjects connected with the mitigation of the Famine the better…’. He hopes that they shall have a considerable number of adherents from Cork. 7pp 26 2 March 1848 Letter, from William Smith O’Brien (M.P.), London to ‘My dear Sir’, Denny Lane Esquire, 4 Sidney Place, Cork, enclosing ‘a note in reply to the letter of your friend’. He has recommended to our friends in Dublin to get up a general meeting of Repealers of all classes. Outlines 4 resolutions, firstly to adopt an address of congratulations to the French People, secondly an address to the Queen with a respectful demand for the granting of Repeal; thirdly to declare ‘unremitting hostility’ to every government opposed to repeal; fourthly an address to the Irish People for them to ’preserve order & repress outrage…’. O’Brien wishes that the Repealers of Cork would foment a combined movement with those in Dublin and requests that Lane let him know what are the views ‘generally entertained in improving the present state of affairs’. He hopes that the Cork Confederates will intervene in the Borough of Kinsale election, where two Englishmen ‘Lord N Clinton and B. Harvey ex MP’ are battling ‘without the intervention of any Irish party in their quarrel’. He suggests a deputation to Kinsale ‘to make reconnaissance to be followed if possible by a fight’. 8pp 27 23 April 1848 Letter, from William Smith O’Brien, Limerick to ‘My Dear Sir’, Denny Lane, Sidney Terrace, Cork. Concerns visit to the Repealers of Cork. Mentions a ‘soirée’ on Saturday night at which Meagher will attend. He will be proceeding to Cork and thence by way of Youghal and Dungarvan to Waterford. He does not wish to propose such a meeting ‘unless it be desired by the men of Cork’. Suggests holding a soirée in the evening as ‘the working classes will be enabled to take part in the demonstrations without interfering with their ordinary occupations…’.

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