Letter from 'A Loyal Subject' to Lord Wimborne, undated, circa 22 November, 1915

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Letter from 'A Loyal Subject' to Lord Wimborne, undated, circa 22 November, 1915

1 Tralee To His Excellency
Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland With reference to a resolution
at the Kerry Co Council
here regarding the Committee
of the Tralee and Dingle Railway
to petition Your Excellency to get
this L 1 taken off which is
the cause of disqualifying
them from acting on the board.
One of those gentlemen J P
O'Donnell is one of the heads
of the Sinn Feiners and took
a most prominent part in a
meeting held in 2 Castleisland by Dermot
Fitzgerald who is now in prison
for offence against the Defence
of the Realm Act. That night
when O'Donnell returned to
Tralee he was firing shots
through the streets and was
brought up by the police for
it but through some great
influence got out of it, you
can ask your own D.J. in
Tralee about this. You can
also see in the Kerry News
were he opposed giving hay
to the government. This is one
of the Committee whom they
are about to petition you
for. Another one of the
Committee T. J. Baker is a discharged bankrupt
and is also a great Sinn Feiner A Loyal Subject

A letter from an anonymous 'Loyal Subject' to Ivor Churchill Guest, Lord Wimborne (1873-1939). The letter concerns a move by the Kerry County Council to change the criteria for appointment of the management committee of the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway (which requires the permission of the Lord Lieutenant). The effect of the current criteria is to disqualify a number of sitting committee members and this appears to be why Kerry County Council is seeking to legitimise their position. The writer mentions two individual currently serving committee members, which, clearly, he deems to be unsuitable. Both are Sinn Féin activists, one has been involved in public disturbance, the other a discharged bankrupt.Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne was appointed the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1915. Guest worked closely alongside Sir Matthew Nathan (1862-1939) in the administration of Ireland. Following the suppression of the Rising, Guest, under pressure, was forced to resign as Lord Lieutenant. A later inquiry into the Rising exonerated Guest and held Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) chiefly responsible for the events that occurred. Guest would continue to serve as Lord Lieutenant until 1918.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0419.html)