Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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(viii) Later Material

Isaac Butt (1873) (1 item) 55 8 October 1873

Letter, from Isaac Butt M.P, Leader of the Home Rule Party, Dublin, to ‘My Dear Ronayne’. He is ‘greatly obliged for all the trouble you took about the Club’. Mentions his obligation to Mrs. Ronayne for her trouble and a letter from O’Neill Daunt on Ronayne’s suggestion about a meeting in Cork. Butt agrees with Ronayne that ‘it is too late for any open air demonstration but a meeting of delegates …would be very useful…It is easy to keep clear of the convention act.’ 3pp

Denny Lane Home Rule Membership (1875) (1 item)

56 1 September 1875 Certificate of Membership of the Irish Home Rule League, Denny Lane Esquire, Cork, for period ending 1 September 1875. With celtic-style decoration and image of the Irish Parliament Building at College Green, Dublin. Signatories of Honorary Secretaries include John O Blunden, W.J. O’W.Davitt, Joseph A. Galbraith, W.R. Redmond M.P. On reverse are printed the general principles and objects of the Irish Home Rule League. 1 item 57 21 May 1876 Letter, from Isaac Butt M.P., United Hotel, London, to Denny Lane, Cork. ‘I was not here yesterday when your telegram came…’. Butt has every reason to believe that the University Bill will be approved by the Catholic prelates, but that they have unfinished opinions on the subject, and he has no authority to say that it has the sanction of any among them. He cannot go beyond his statement in the House of Commons and wishes the letter to be considered ‘entirely private’, ‘we are looking with great anxiety to the results of the Cork election’.

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