Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Sir Edward, 5 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Andrew Philip Magill

This work was originally published by Maynooth University in Ireland in 2017. In 2026 this data, stored in a relational database was extracted and converted into this TEI/XML document.

 Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Vienna, AT 2026

This is an open access work licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0).

This is a letter for Andrew Philip Magill (1871–1941), an Irish civil servant, to Sir Edward. The letter concerns the state of the Jacob's Biscuit Factory after the 1916 Easter Rising. Magill inquires whether Jacob's will resume business as a friend of his has cargo for the factory but if the factory will not resume business he will sell the items elsewhere as they are perishable. During Easter Week Jacob's Biscuit Factory served as one of the occupied sites for the 2nd Battalion under Commandant Thomas MacDonagh. Jacob’s was by-passed by the main action as General Lowe decided to concentrate on the GPO and the Four Courts which he considered the more strategically important of the positions held by the insurgents. News of the surrender did not reach Jacob’s until Sunday. MacDonagh and the garrison surrendered reluctantly. The three most senior officers, MacDonagh, MacBride and O’Hanrahan, were executed.In 1916 Andrew Philip Magill (1871 - 1941) was working as a civil servant and held the position of private secretary for successive chief secretaries of Ireland until his transfer to the Northern Irish Civil Service in 1921.

 National Archives of Ireland Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers, CSO RP/1916/7645/2 https://letters1916.ie/item/148 English Andrew Philip Magill 1916-05-05 Edward Bishop Street, Dublin, Ireland Male Easter Rising Ireland 1916

The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).

 5/5 Dear Sir Edward Keating in P. is very anxious to know whether Jacobs is still standing & if so whether they propose to resume business at once. A friend of his has a cargo of stuff for Jacobs & if they can't use it he proposes to sell it elsewhere as it is perishable. Can you wire me any information tomorrow. Yours in haste A. P. Magill Bishop Street, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Charles E. Jacob to Joseph Brennan, 6 May 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Sir Edward, 5 May 1916 Andrew Philip Magill Letters from Andrew Philip Magill to J. P. Farrell, 7 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to William Field, 1 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Francis E. Meehan, 4 April 1916.Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to James Patrick Farrell, 29 March 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Alfred Byrne, 1 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Sir Edward, 5 May 1916Letter from Henry Arthur Wynne to Andrew Philip Magill, 29 March 1916Letter from Matthew Nathan to Andrew Philip Magill, 19 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to J. G. Swift MacNeill, 19 April 1916.Telegram from Andrew Philip Magill to Sir Robert Chalmers, 15 July 1916Telegrams from Andrew Philip Magill to Henry, 4 August 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Peter Quinn, 10 August 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Sir Robert Chalmers, 14 July 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to M.J. Murphy MP, 11 November 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to sir George Chrystal, 15 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to William O'Brien, 28 February 1916.Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Scott Alexander, 4 March 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Thomas O'Donnell, 17 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Peter Burrowes Shiel, 29 March 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 19 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, 12 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 8 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to William Howell Davies, 11 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, 1 April 1916.Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Cecil Harmsworth, 1 April 1916.Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Jeanie Horner, 6 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to William Horner, 31 March 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Thomas Francis Smyth, 29 March 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to William Seddall, 15 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Matthew Bourke, 6 May 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to William Field, 19 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Sir Neville Chamberlain, 24 March 1916Telegraph from Matthew Nathan to Andrew Philip Magill, 23 March 1916Letter from Matthew Nathan to Andrew Philip Magill, 22 March 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Joseph Devlin, 8 August 1916Letter from George Chrystal to Andrew Philip Magill, 14 April 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to William O'Brien, 28 February 1916