Letter from Michael Fogarty to Alice Stopford Green, 1916 July 26.

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Letter from Michael Fogarty to Alice Stopford Green, 1916 July 26.

1 Copy of Letter from the Bishop of Killaloe Ennis 26th July 16 Dear Mrs Stopford Green I enclose petition for Sir Roger Casement with
my signature attached. I have never met Sir Roger Casement, I know
nothing of him except through the press. I regard
him as a most pure and exalted enthusiast for
what is right and noble regardless of money
or pleasure. Men of that fine strain are becoming very scarce
in English life. Why destroy them in cold blood
If the English Govnmt insist on his Execution -
well revenge may be gratified, but no
public interest will be sewed thereby in Ireland,
but quite the other way of that there
is no doubt whatever. Sincerely yours M. Fogarty
Bishop of Killaloe
Signatures follow of D ODonnell Bishop of Raphoe
Robert Brown Bishop of Cloyne
William Miller bishop of Eumenia
(Stillorgan Dublin)

This is a copy of letter from Michael Fogarty (1859-1955), bishop of Killaloe, to Alice Stopford Green (1847-1929), Irish historian and nationalist. Stopford Green was a close friend of Sir Roger Casement (1865-1916) and one those involved in the campaign to reprieve Casement's sentenced to death for treason after he had been arrested on Banna Strand in County Kerry on the eve of the Easter Rising. Fogarty writes to enclose a petition on behalf of Casement and writes in strong support of Casement, noting that no public interest would be served by Casement's execution. The letters also notes that the signatures of a number of other clergy will follow. Fogarty was said to have been opposed to the Easter Rising but later wrote against the partition of Ireland and of 'hideous atrocities' committed by the British on Irish nationalists.

Michael Fogarty
Alice Stopford Green
1916-07-26
Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Culture and the Arts

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0302.html)