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91
[September] 1914
Letter from H. Letts, Glens of Antrim Hotel, Cushendall, to Captain Berkeley. He has received Berkeley’s letter and showed it to Dr. O’Kane who ‘practically knows every man of the Glens Volunteers by name’. The men ‘can all shoot’, but are feeling neglected as the largest body of Nationalists in Antrim, and enthusiasm is dying out. O ’Kane has written to the Executive Committee in Dublin for arms and an officer to take command. A Unionist officer, Major Stone, is coming for the month of August. He is sorry for the victims in Dublin but ‘nothing could have been better for our cause than the whole affair and the way things turned out’.
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92
[September] 1914
Letter from J.H. King, Honorary Secretary, Down Company Committee Irish National Volunteers, Maryville, Newcastle, Co. Down to ‘Dear Sir’ (Captain George Berkeley). Concerns appointment of Mr. Burns as military inspector for the area.
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vii Letters from George Berkeley
93
24 July 1914
Draft letter, from Captain George Berkeley, Grand Central Hotel, Belfast, to General Macready, Belfast. Apologises for ent ering into communication ‘in a somewhat informal manner’. He notes that the town (Belfast) ‘..is in a state of some tension’ with ‘reports of a proposed attac k on the Catholic district’. He does not give credence to reports bu t sees it as ‘self evident tha t there is some important demonstration in progress on the Unionist side’. Notes the town is ‘filled with En glish Conservative journalists apparently awaiting some special event…’ and that a body of Ulster Volunteers marched through the Catholic district at 2 a.m. Berkeley notes that he called yesterday upon the Police and Count Gleichen to offer assistance to preserve order. He formally offers Macready the assistance of the Irish Volunteers Belfast Regiment in preserving order if necessary. (See also PR12/4 and PR12/58)
94
24 July 1914
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