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he cannot talk with Mr. Burns and Sergeant Major Cusack as he is going to London for a fortnight . He is ‘most anxious to know all about Belfast organisation…the most important place and…most dangerous place in Ireland’.
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56
14 July 1914
Order by Colonel Maurice Moore, Inspector General, Irish Volunteers, appointing Captain George Berkeley as Chief Inspecting Officer for the City of Belfast and counties Down and Antrim.
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22 July 1914
Letter, from Colonel Edmond Cotter, Military Inspection Staff, Irish Volunteers, 44 Dawson Street, Dublin, to Captain Berkeley, Chief Inspecting Officer, Belfast. Relates to Berkeley’s resignation as Inspecting Officer for Down and Antrim and his activities in Belfast.
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27 July 1914
Letter, from Colonel Edmond Cotter, Military Inspection Staff, Irish Volunteers, 44 Dawson Street, Dublin, to Captain Berkeley, Chief Inspecting Officer, Belfast. He says Berkeley’s Report is ‘in the highest degree creditable…especially as “Belfast” is so useful that Co Down must await your greater leisure’. He is going to Ulster and there will be a meeting of ‘about 100 responsible & sober -minded residents…to decide the momentous question of defence…’, whi ch he wishes Berkeley to attend. Berkeley was ‘quite right to convey the information…to the Regular military authorities’. Notes the ‘whole administration of Ireland is practically in the hands of our enemies’. (See also PR12/93)
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30 July 1914
Letter, from Edmond Cotter, Military Inspection Staff, Irish Volunteers, MacMahon’s Hotel, to Captain Berkeley. Mentions his ‘kind invitation’. He is sorry to have left Dublin. He thinks Berkeley should remain as senior officer in Belfast and that he would remain until a scheme if defence was drawn up.
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