Captain George Berkeley Descriptive List (Ref. PR12)

PR12/

vii Sir Horace Plunkett

168 28 July 1920

Letter (Printed) from Sir Horace Plunkett, President, I.D.L, Dublin. Requests ‘moderate men in Ireland to intervene between the two ext remes before it is too late…’, those who accept self – government but oppose separation from the Crown. Mentions origins and aims of the I.D.L movement, the views of ‘the business men’, the refusal of Sinn Fein to parley, the ‘failure of classes most immed iately concerned in Ireland’.

3pp

169 4 April 1921

Letter (printed) from Sir Horace Plunkett, President, I.D.L, Dublin, to ‘Dear Sir (or Madam) ’. Requests attendance at meeting of I.D.L in Dublin. Purpose of meeting is ‘to consider whether Do minionism is not the only basis on which it is possible to negotiate an enduring peace’. Believes the ‘overwhelming majority of the Irish people would…support our policy if…the Government [would] offer it. Mentions forthcoming elections and the need for a practical moderate alternative.

170 May 1921

Letter from Sir Horace Plunkett, President, I.D.L., Dublin, to members of the London Committee. Concerns current situation in Ireland, and outlines activities of the League since its foundation. Also mentions content of the 12 May Memorial, and the need to appeal to the two extreme parties in Ireland and the British Government.

4pp

171 9 August 1921

Letter from Sir Horace Plunkett, President, I.D.L., Dublin, to ‘Dear Sir’. Marked ‘confidential’. Requests further support of the I.D.L., ‘The time has come for the members to decide whether any further expenditure shall be incurred or the League dissolved ’. He is convinced it is ‘in your best interests and in those of our country that it should go on…’. The I.D.L. gives an opportunity for those most prominent in commerce and industry to get involved in political affairs. Once peace is restored, a constitution will need to be proposed ‘on Dominion lines, because thus alone can the relations between Ireland and Britain, and…the Northern Corner and Southern Ireland be satisfactorily adjusted’. Notes effect on business interests. (See also PR12/140)

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