Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

U611/

Clubs. Remarks that the conduct of the government and their Police in Dublin is becoming more arbitrary and tyrannical every day. Tells how the office type, newspapers and all were seized and that ‘All this looks like business and men should prepare their minds for what they may expect’. Says the courses likely to be adopted by the Government are to intimidate and break down the rising spirit of the people or ‘lash…them into riot and premature outbreak…Have the people the patient courage that can wait and suffer yet prepare and hope?’. (See also U611/39) 4pp

Thomas Mathew Halpin (1848) (1 item)

49 14 July 1848 Letter from Thomas Mathew Halpin, Committee Rooms of the Irish League, 2 Dame Street, Dublin to ‘Dear Sir’, Denny Lane Esquire, Cork. Informs Lane of next meeting of the Honorary Secretaries of the Irish League. The meeting should ‘present as large an array of adhesions as possible, and enrol an immense number of United Repealers, the Committee rely upon your using all the influences you can command in Cork for that end’. 2pp

Thomas England (1848) (1 item)

50 9 August 1848 Letter, from Thomas England, Cork to ‘My Dear John’. Explains that the reason he did not write on receipt of letter was because of his preparations for America. He intends to visit England on his way to Liverpool. Relates that M.J. Barry, Denny Lane, the Varians, and Mullan are in gaol under the Habeas Corpus (Suspension) Act, and their houses searched. ‘It is reported that there are charges against Lane for High Treason but I don’t believe a word of it...any charges…are unfounded.’ Reports that F Mangan is gone to New York and other young men have also left. England is in good spirits about his trip and his Cork friends give him every hope of success. (See also U611/30, /15, /51).

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