Captain George Berkeley Descriptive List (Ref. PR12)

PR12/

143 June 1920

Notes by Berkeley on Dominion Home Rule.

5pp

144 June 1920

‘Letter for Sunday Times’, by Berkeley, concerning Irish fina nce. ‘England receives far more money from Ireland in annual taxation than she spends on the government of that country’.

2pp

145 June 1920

Draft of PR12/144

3pp

146 19 August 1920

Draft letter by Berkeley to Edmond J. Frewen, concerning draft manifesto for the I.D.L. Berkeley mentions Lloyd George’s position and is opposed to setting up the I.D.L. as a rival to Sinn Fein and ‘would rather see Sinn Fein triumphant…than add a third party…as long as Nationalist Ireland is united, it is not entirely a negligible quantity over here…Dominion Home Rule…is the highest bid to which [Lloyd] George will agree and…the lowest that Sinn Fein will take’. Also contains remarks arising out of Berkeley’s comments on the suggested Manifesto by Edmond Frewen.

10pp

147 [August] 1920

Draft ‘letter to The Times, London, written after the Peace Conference in 1920’ by Berkeley. Concerns solution to the ‘Irish question’. He argues for a conference between a few selected envoys from the governme nt and Sinn Fein, ‘…six level - headed men sitting around a table could come to agreement…’. Mentions Lloyd George’s ‘hesitation’ , and cites previous agreements with Boers and ‘the armed Protestants of Ulster’. Notes that ‘The condition of Ireland is profou ndly sad. Good Men are going to their death every day’.

4pp

148 December 1920

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