Captain George Berkeley Descriptive List (Ref. PR12)

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going away if you find it necessary because I can not hope to get so efficient a substitute…’. Refers to the ‘great danger’ and ‘expensive business’ of a ‘long range’.

1p

66

26 August 1914

Telegram from ‘Cotter’ (Edmond Cotter) to Captain Berkeley, Grand Central Hotel, Belfast. ‘Please send today your proposed reorganisation’.

1 item

67

3 September 1914

Letter from J. Crean, Inspector General’s Office, Irish Vo lunteers, 16 South Fredrick Street Dublin, to ‘Dear Capt. Berkeley’, Belfast . Concerns difficulties on giving instruction to the Volunteers on the rifle and air gun.

1p

68

4 September 1914

Letter, from Maurice Moore, Inspector General’s Office , Irish Volunteers, Dublin, to Captain Berkeley. Asks Berkeley to inform the Belfast Committee that no addresses can be made on political questions on any parade of the Volunteers. Such questions are contrary to the Constitution and approved principles of the Irish Volunteers.

2pp

69

5 September 1914

Letter, from Standing Committee, Irish Volunteers, 41 Kildare Street, Dublin, to Mr. M. Carolan, Honorary Secretary, Belfast Regiment, Irish Volunteers, 30 Divis Street, Belfast. Directs attention ‘to the order forbidding question s of policy being dealt with by local parts of the organisation’. Refers to copies of resolutions passed by the Belfast Committee.

1p

70

10 September 1914

Letter from Diarmuid Coffey, Inspector General’s Offic e, Irish Volunteers, 16 South Fredrick Street Dublin, to Captain Berkeley, Belfast. Requests a marked map of your county and ‘as complete a brigade state as you can’.

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