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This letter was addressed to Alice Stopford Green (1847-1929). Green was the wife of historian John Richard Green (1837-1883). In addition to this she was a nationalist, involved in the Howth gun-running and a historian in her own right. She was shocked by the 1916 Rising and horrified that Casement had been plotting to obtain German assistance. Nonetheless, she visited Casement in prison and lobbied hard to prevent his execution. Author of the letter James Walsh (b. 1880) was a clerk in Urlingford Union, County Kilkenny. The letter is in regard to a petition gathered by the Urlingsford Board of Guardians for clemency to be shown to Rodger Casement in response to his death sentence.Rodger Casement (1864-1916) had been imprisoned in London after he had been arrested while landing on the coast of Kerry in a submarine on the eve of the Easter Rising. A campaign was launched featuring many prominent figures such as Alice Stopford Green, W. B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw to secure a reprieve for Casement but he was hanged on 3 August 1916
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