Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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(vii) Other Correspondence relating to 1840’s politics (16 items)

Richard O’Gorman (1846) (1 item)

39 23 January 1846 Letter, from Richard O’Gorman, ‘Library’, to Denny Lane, 4 Sidney Place, Cork. Says he has just been speaking to Nally who reports in the Roll but he found none deciding the point mentioned by Lane. He will enquire whether such a decision has been made in the Exchequer. Asks Lane to ‘Read me in tomorrow’s Nation and tell me what you think…I spoke without preparation and merely gave…the best report I could from Memory…’. (See also U611/48) 4pp

Denny Lane (1846) (1 item)

40 5 September 1846 Letter from Denny Lane, 4 Sidney Place, Cork, to J.M. Ray, Secretary, Loyal National Repeal Association, Corn Exchange Rooms, Dublin. Lane requests that his name be removed from the list of members of the Association ‘ As the policy lately adopted…and the recent expulsion of independent members, without cause, charge, notice, or form, seems to me to be calculated (if it is not designed) to perpetuate the Legislative Union, and to extinguish freedom of opinion in Ireland…’. 1p

J.M. Ray (1846) (1 item)

41 10 September 1846 Letter, from J.M. Ray, Secretary, Loyal National Repeal Association, Cork Exchange Rooms, Dublin, to Denny Lane Esquire, 4 Sidney Place, Cork. Ray Acknowledges receipt of Lane’s letter of resignation

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