Letter from M. L. Waller, Home Office, to the Commandant, Prisoner of War Camp, Frongach, 9 October 1916 Letters 1916-1923 M. L. Waller

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This is a letter from M.L. Waller of the Home Office in Whitehall, London, to the commandant of Frongach internment camp in Wales. After the Easter Rising over 3,400 men and women were arrested and interned in prisons and camps in Ireland, England and Wales. The majority were released after a short imprisonment and eventually most of the men who remained imprisoned were transferred to Frongach in north Wales. By October 1916 there were still over 500 men interned there. This letter refers to the case of a number of prisoners who were punished for refusing to perform 'fatigue duty'. Walker asks that the remainder of the punishment be remitted and that the men are no longer asked to perform those duties. This letter is contained in the collection of papers relating to the Cowan family of Drumcondra and their uncle, Seamus McGowan who was a captain in the Irish Citizen Army and was one of the men imprisoned in Frongach after the Rising.

 University College Dublin Archives Cowan Family Papers, P34/D/13 https://letters1916.ie/item/5 English M. L. Waller 1916-06-09 Home Office, Whitehall, London, England The Commandant, Frongach Internment Camp Frongach Internment Camp, Wales Male Easter Rising Ireland 1916

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 To be posted on Notice Board in Prison Home Office, Whitehall. 9th October 1916. 313206/. Sir, I am directed by the Secretary of State to say thathe has had under his consideration the case of theprisoners now under punishment for refusing to performfatigue duty ordered by you (removal of rubbish from theguard's quarters), and it appears to him that they havenow been sufficiently punished for this offence. He hastherefore decided to remit the remainder of the punishmentand also for the future to relieve them from thisparticular duty, which he understands from you can beproperly performed by the guard. In announcing this decision to the prisoners, theSecretary of State desires that you should make it clearthat in his opinion you were right in requiring them toperform this duty and right in punishing those whorefused, but, the matter being a trifling one, he does notdesire to carry the punishment further. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, (sgd) M. L. Walker The Commandant, Prisoner of War Camp, Frongoch. Home Office, Whitehall, London, England Letter from M. L. Waller, Home Office, to the Commandant, Prisoner of War Camp, Frongach, 9 October 1916Letter from John Pedder to the Under-Secretary, 2 August 1916Letter from John Pedder to Matthew Nathan, the Under-Secretary for Ireland, 6 April 1916Letter from John Pedder to the Under Secretary of Ireland, 27 March, 1916Letter from Arthur Eagleston to the Under Secretary of Ireland, 13 July 1916Letter from Arthur Eagleston to the Under Secretary of Ireland, 4 July 1916Letter from S. A. Arthur to Sir Robert Chalmers, the Under-Secretary for Ireland, 13 July 1916Letter from Edward Troup to the Under Secretary of the State for India, 19 July 1916Letter from Arthur John Eagleston to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 7 January 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to sir George Chrystal, 15 April 1916Letter from E. Blackwell to Gertrude Bannister, 2 August 1916Letter from J. F. Henderson to Matthew Nathan, 28 April 1916Letter from M.L. Waller to Sir Robert Chalmers, 5 July 1916Letter from John Peddar to Matthew Nathan, 22 January 1916Letter from M.L. Waller to Robert Chalmers, 10 July 1916Letter from A.B. Adams to Robert Chalmers, 19 July 1916Letter from George Chrystal to Andrew Philip Magill, 14 April 1916Letter from J.H. Morgan to Herbert Samuel, 4 August 1916Letter from Arthur John Eagleston to the Under-Secretary, Dublin Castle, 4 April 1916Letter from Arthur Eagleston to the Under Secretary for Ireland, 8 June 1916 Frongach Internment Camp, Wales Letter from M. L. Waller, Home Office, to the Commandant, Prisoner of War Camp, Frongach, 9 October 1916Letter from Michael Collins to Nancy O'Brien, 27 July 1916 M. L. Waller Letter from M. L. Waller, Home Office, to the Commandant, Prisoner of War Camp, Frongach, 9 October 1916Letter from M. L. Waller to Sir Robert Chalmers, 25 July 1916Letter from M. L. Waller to Joseph Brennan, 1 August 1916Letter from M. L. Waller to Sir Robert Chalmers, 17 July 1916