Letter from Michael Fogarty to Alice Stopford Green, 1916 July 26. Letters 1916-1923 Michael Fogarty

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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.

 National Library of Ireland Roger Casement Papers, Collection List No. A15, Ms. 13,088 (9) https://letters1916.ie/item/302 English Michael Fogarty 1916-07-26 Killaloe, Ireland Alice Stopford Green Male Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Culture and the Arts

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 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) Michael Fogarty Letter from Michael Fogarty to Alice Stopford Green, 1916 July 26.Letter from Bishop Michael Fogarty to John Francis Hogan, 21 April 1916 Alice Stopford Green Letter from Alice Stopford Green to Herbert Henry Asquith, 17 May 1916.Letter from Alice Stopford Green to General Botha, 16 June 1916.Letter from Mary O'Nolan to Alice Stopford Green, 25 July 1916Letter from Michael Fogarty to Alice Stopford Green, 1916 July 26.Letter from Michael James Quin to Alice Stopford Green, 28 July 1916Letter from Maurice Moore to Alice Stopford Green, 27 July 1916Letter from M. J. O'Donnell to Alice Stopford Green, 28 July 1916Letter from Fr Michael O'Flanagan to Alice Stopford Green, 30 July 1916Letter from Joseph Delaney to Alice Stopford Green, 29 July 1916Letter from John J. O'Mahony to Alice Stopford Green, 29 August 1916Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 6 August 1916Letter from James O'Shea to Alice Stopford Green, 30 July 1916Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 9 August 1916Letter from Alice Stopford Green to John Quinn, 27 August 1916 Killaloe, Ireland Letter from Michael Fogarty to Alice Stopford Green, 1916 July 26.