Letter from 'A Loyal Subject' to Lord Wimborne, undated, circa 22 November, 1915 Letters 1916-1923

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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.

 National Archives of Ireland Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers, CSO RP/1916/19613/1 https://letters1916.ie/item/419 English Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland Ivor Churchill Guest Industry and Public Administration

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 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 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 Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland Letter from 'A Loyal Subject' to Lord Wimborne, undated, circa 22 November, 1915Telegram from R.M. Wynne to the Under-Secretary, 29 July 1916Letter from Patrick Carey to John Quinnell, 22 December 1915 Ivor Churchill Guest Letter from James Patrick Farrell to Lord Wimborne, 27 March 1916Letter from W. H. M. Cobbe to Lord Wimborne, 29 April 1916Letter from 'a loyal subject' to Lord Wimborne, 30 April 1916Letter from William Sheehan to Lord Wimborne, 26 May 1916Letter from David G. Curtin to Lord Wimborne, 25 March 1916Letter from John R. Johnson to Lord Wimborne, 18 November, 1915Letter from 'A Loyal Subject' to Lord Wimborne, undated, circa 22 November, 1915Letter from Patrick H. O'Brien to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 20 June 1916Letter from the Town Clerk, Blackrock, County Dublin, to Lord Wimborne, 20 April 1916Letter from Major J. Crean to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 4 May 1916Letter from M. Bonham Carter to Lord Wimborne, 19 February 1916Letter from Edward Marsh to Lord Wimborne, 13 May 1916Letter from Patrick O'Brien to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 21 June 1916Letter from Reginald Le Normand Brabazon, the Earl of Meath, to Lord Wimborne, 7 February 1916Letter from the Earl of Shaftsbury to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 31 December 1915Letter from John Butler to Lord Wimborne, 15 November 1915Letter from Nicholas Nally to the Lord Lieutenant, 17 May 1916Letter from Lord Wimborne to Sir John Maxwell, 1 May 1916.Letter from Lord Wimborne to Sir John Maxwell, 1 May 1916Letter from Lord Wimborne to Sir John Maxwell, 3 May 1916Letter from William M. Nolan to Lord Wimborne, 13 March 1916Letter from Thomas G. Buchanan to Lord Wimborne, 19 May 1916Letter from Jones McKenna to Lord Wimborne, 21 August 1916Letter from Hanoria Shanahan to the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Wimborne, 29 March 1916Letter from Peter Molloy to Lord Wimborne, 29 January 1916Letter from Lord Wimborne to Sir John Maxwell, 29 April 1916