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This is a copy of a letter from Serjeant Alex Sullivan, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork to Gavan Duffy (1882-1951), in which he conveys his condolences on the execution of Roger Casement (1864–1916). States that 'these asses (the English) can learn nothing. They have made a martyr most stupidly, while abstaining from their hysterical performance would have been a good move for their own ends.'George Gavan Duffy was an Irish politician, barrister and judge. He unsuccessfully defended Roger Casement at his trial for high treason after the Easter Rising.
The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).