Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Alice Furlong, 3 November 1915 Letters 1916-1923 Thomas MacDonagh

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This letter was written by Thomas MacDonagh (1878 - 1916) to Alice Furlong (1871 - 1946). MacDonagh writes in order to request Miss Furlong's permission to print her poetry in his newly published book of studies in Irish and Anglo-Irish literature. MacDonagh also expresses admiration for Furlong's work and informs her that he will be using the first edition of the poem.Thomas MacDonagh was a poet, playwright and teacher. MacDonagh was a leading member of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and was one of the principle organisers of the Easter Rising. He was also one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. He was executed by firing-squad on 3 May 1916. Alice Furlong was born at Knocklaiquin Lodge, near Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, one of four daughters of James Walter Furlong, the sports editor of a Dublin newspaper. She was a poet and a writer, and was regarded as an influential contributor to the Irish literary revival. She was also a political activist; she was a founder member and vice-president of the nationalist women's group Inghinidhe na hÉireann, established in 1900.

 Military Archives of Ireland Br. Allen Collection, IE/AL/1915/19 https://letters1916.ie/item/528 English Thomas MacDonagh 1915-11-03 29 Oakley Road, Dublin, Ireland Alice Furlong Male Culture and the Arts

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 29 Oakley Road Dublin 3.xi.1915 Dear Miss Furlong, I hope you have not quite forgotten me and that you will recognise my name. I have written and am now publishing a book of studies in Irish and Anglo Irish Literature, and am at present adding to it a citation of thirty poems illustration of what I call the Irish mode. I am was not using any copyright work, and so not asking the permission of authors to use their work till Mr Joseph a Plunkett on looking over my proofs insisted on my asking you for permission to use your Tu'ad. As all the rest of the book is printed correctedfinished I have printed your poem and now ask you to hurry. If you cannot give me permission to use it I can cut it out still. If you give me the permission I can offer you with my thanks nothing better than a copy of the book when it is ready I may say that even before Plunkett put me under bonds to do this I admired the poem. It was the thirty eighth, and last in order of pages of the good poems in Gregory's bad anthology in my thinking You will notice that I have inserted the 'cloak' of your first version, omitted in Gregory's book. I hope you will let it stand. You need not annotate it. I am writing notes at the end of the book. With many good wishes Yours, Thomas MacDonagh D J O'Donoghue has given me your address. Thomas MacDonagh Typescript of last letter and will of Thomas MacDonagh, 2 May 1916Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Alice Furlong, 3 November 1915List of demands made by Thomas MacDonagh at Richmond BarracksCopy of last letter and statement by Thomas MacDonagh, 2 May 1916Note from Eamonn Ceannt to Thomas MacDonagh, 3 April 1916 29 Oakley Road, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Thomas MacDonagh to Alice Furlong, 3 November 1915