1 Urban District Blackrock Town Clerk's Office, Town Hall Blackrock Co Dublin. 20th April 1916. Sir, I am directed to forward you herewith copy of Resolution
passed at the Bi-Monthly Meeting of the Blackrock Urban
District Council, last night. I am Sir,
Your obedient Servant, Robert Finlay Town Clerk. The Rt. Hon. Lord Wimborne, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Vice Regal Lodge, D U B L I N 2 MOVED by Councillor J.P., McCabe J.P. ( Chairman )
SECONDED by Councillor Frank Foy.
and carried:- ' THAT we regard the
appointment of Mr J.H. Campbell as Attorney General for
Ireland over the head of Mr James O'Connor, Solicitor General,
to whom the office should revert in accordance with the usual
practice' as perpetuating the worst days of Tory ascendancy
and calculated to bring the administration of the law into
disrepute. The appointment of the Law Adviser of the Covenantors
whose declared intention it was to defy the law of the
Land, to a position in which he would be responsible for
instituting criminal prosecutions, is in our opinion highly
dangerous at this particular period and may lead to unpleasant
consequences. Further we are strongly of opinion that the
filling of a Judicial vacancy at this time, after the public
convenience had been sacrificed by the refusal to appoint a
Police Magistrate for Dublin because the vacancy should have
been filled by a Catholic, and the refusal to fill other
appointments which by their nature should have fallen to
Catholics, is a clear indication that a effort is
being made by the bigoted ascendancy party to fully resume
their intolerant domination in this country. We consider this
attempt must be met by native organisation on the part of
Nationalists, however loath they may be to follow such a course
at this period, and would respectfully earnestly urge the
Irish Party, in whose ability to safeguard the interests of
Ireland we have absolute confidence, to consider the present
situation in the light of these new developments'.