Letter from R. Barry O'Brien to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 12 February 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Richard Barry O'Brien

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This letter was written by Richard Barry O’Brien (1847–1918), to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer (1842-1917), who served as the Bishop of Limerick from 1888 until his death. O’Brien wrote this letter to O‘Dwyer on behalf of Irish nuns in Ypres. According to O’Brien these nuns have been made the victims of the ‘ruthlessness of the foreigner’ and an opportunity has arisen to ‘replant’ these nuns in the ‘old soil’. O’Brien requests that O’Dwyer make a public statement to hasten the nun’s cause.O’Brien was an Irish nationalist biographer, historian, and publicist. His best known work concerned the life of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846 – 1891), a leading nationalist figure in Ireland and leader of the Home Rule Party, 1882-1891.

 Limerick Diocesan Archive LDA/BI/ET/36, LDA/BI/ET/36 https://letters1916.ie/item/637 English Richard Barry O'Brien 1916-02-12 100 Sinclair Road, Kensington, London, England Edward Thomas O'Dwyer Ireland Male World War I (1914-1918) Faith

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 100. SINCLAIR ROAD. KENSINGTON Feb: 12th /16. Dear Lord Bishop, The kind support which your Lordship gave to the movement for creating a Celtic Cross to the memory of the soldiers of the Irish Brigade who fought, and won at Foutenoy, emboldens me to approach your Lordship on a kindred subject I am sure that you sympathise with the position of the Irish Nuns of Ypres who have been made the victims of the Ruthlessness of the foreigner today as their predecessors were made the victims of the Ruthlessness of the foreigner two hundred years ago It struck us that it would be in the fitness of things to replant those Irish Nuns in the old soil and really a most unexpected and fortunate chance for doing this has offered itself to us. I am sure that a public word from your Lordship would hasten the success of our movement and in any event I feel that your Lordship will forgive me for trespassing upon you because I 'Remember Limerick' . I remain dear Lord Bishop Sincerely Yours, R. Barry O'Brien 100 Sinclair Road, Kensington, London, England Letter from R. Barry O'Brien to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 12 February 1916 Ireland Letter from George A. Lyons to the Honorary Secretary of Sinn Féin, 5 April 1916Letter from Seán Mac Diarmada to Tom Clake, 5 April 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 12 May 1916Letter from Eoin McNeill to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 18 April 1916Letter from R. Barry O'Brien to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 12 February 1916Letter from Mairín Ní Ribhógh to James Ryan, 2 August 1916Letter from ‘One of the Hard Pressed’ to Mr. Samuel, 28 July 1916Letter from Emma Duffin to her aunts, 9 January 1916, Letter from Arthur to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 14 January 1916Letter from Fr. C. F. Maher to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 16 April 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 23 October 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to the Right Rev. Monsignor Denis Hallinan, 23 October 1916Letter from Peter Mooney to his sister Katie Mooney, 4 February 1916.Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 25 January 1916Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 25 February 1916Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 31 December 1915Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Mai, 22 January 1916Letter from Father Willie Doyle S.J. to Mai, 11 February 1916Letter from MW O'Reilly to 'A Cara', 1 June 1916Letter from Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 1 March 1916Letter from Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 10 March 1916Letter from Nora Ring to Susan Daly, March 1923Letter from Douglas Campbell (later Major General Sir Douglas Campbell) to his sister Catherine Agnes Meta Campbell (later Wetherall), 28 October 1917Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell, 19 November 1919Letter from Mary McDonagh to her daughter-in-law Annie McDonagh, early 1920 Richard Barry O'Brien Letter from R. Barry O'Brien to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 12 February 1916 Edward Thomas O'Dwyer Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 12 May 1916Letter from Eoin McNeill to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 18 April 1916Letter from C. Moran to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 15 August 1916Letter from W. H. Grattan Flood to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 15 September 1916Letter from R. Barry O'Brien to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 12 February 1916Letter from General John Grenfell Maxwell to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 6 May 1916Letter from General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 12 May 1916Letter from Arthur to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 14 January 1916Letter from Fr. C. F. Maher to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 16 April 1916Letter from Fr. Peter C. Yorke to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 26 June 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 27 May 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 10 June 1916Letter from Michael O'Riordan to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 23 October 1916Letter from M. M. Carroll to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 1 June 1916Letter from the Limerick City Regiment of the Irish Volunteers to Bishop E. T. O'Dwyer, 14 September 1916Letter from Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer to General John Grenfell Maxwell, 17 May 1916Letter from Patrick Carey to Edward O'Dwyer, D.D., 29 November 1915