Telegram from Alfred Byrne to Frank McNally, 12 July 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Alfred Byrne

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This is a telegram from politician and Dublin MP Alfred 'Alfie' Byrne (1882-1956). The telegram was sent to Frank McNally. McNally participated in the Easter Rising and was detained in Frongoch Detention Camp until mid-1916. The telegram advises that 500 prisoners are to be released at once.Byrne was first elected an MP in the 1915 by-election as a nationalist candidate for the Irish Parliamentary Party. Although opposed to the Easter Rising, he spent 1916 lobbying on behalf of the interned prisoners. Before the Rising he was also a vociferous anti-conscription campaigner.

 Military Archives of Ireland Br. Allen Collection, IE/AL/1916/73 https://letters1916.ie/item/840 English Alfred Byrne 1916-07-12 House of Commons, London, England Frank McNally 1 Sullivan's Avenue, Ballybough Road, Dublin, Ireland Male Easter Rising Ireland 1916

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 TO McNally/ Sullivans Ave Dublin 500 PRISIONERS TO BE RELEASED AT ONCE BYRNE M.P. EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, LTD., PRINTERS, LONDON 1 Sullivan's Avenue, Ballybough Road, Dublin, Ireland Telegram from Alfred Byrne to Frank McNally, 12 July 1916 House of Commons, London, England Letter from the Home Office to Joseph Devlin, 26 July 1916Telegram from Alfred Byrne to Mrs. Walter Harris Wilson, 23 May 1916Letter from Herbert Samuel to John P. Boland, 1 August 1916Telegram from Alfred Byrne to Frank McNally, 12 July 1916Letter from Mabel FitzGerald to John Redmond, 27 May 1916.Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Joseph Devlin, 8 August 1916Letter from John P. Boland to Inspector General R.I.C., 11 July 1916Letter from T J Hanna to Nicolas Lamb, 6 July 1916Letter from John French to John Redmond, 15 April 1916Letter from Frongoch to William O'Brien, 14 October 1916Letter from Michael Staines to Alfred Byrne, 11 October 1916 Alfred Byrne Letter from Alfred Byrne to Helena Molony and Nellie Gifford, 4 January 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Alfred Byrne, 1 April 1916Letter from Irish Prisoners, Frongoch to Alfred Byrne, MP, 11 October 1916Letter from Irish Prisoners, Frongoch to Alfred Byrne, MP, 13 October 1916Telegram from Alfred Byrne to Mrs. Walter Harris Wilson, 23 May 1916Telegram from Alfred Byrne to Frank McNally, 12 July 1916Letter from Alfred Bryne to Augustine Birrell, 30 March 1916Letter from Alfred Byrne to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 15 May 1916Letter from Michael Staines to Alfred Byrne, 11 October 1916