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This is a letter from George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951) to Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945). Gavan Duffy had been acting on behalf of Ernest Blythe (1889-1975) and advises MacNeill that Blythe has been released, suggesting a payment of 10/- to cover out-of-pocket expenses. George Gavan Duffy was an Irish politician, barrister and judge. He unsuccessfully defended Roger Casement at his trial for high treason after the Easter Rising. Eoin MacNeill was a history professor at University College Dublin. In 1913 he established the Irish Volunteers and served as their chief-of-staff. Though he held this position at the outbreak of the Easter Rising, he took no role in the Rising or its planning, and even went so far as to try to prevent it. Ernest Blythe was an organiser for the Irish Volunteers. He had been arrested under the Defence of the Realm Act. He was released from prison in England before the Easter Rising but was rearrested there during Easter week 1916.
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