Letter from Labour Party of Bruff, Co. Limerick to British PM H.H. Asquith, February 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Labour Party of Bruff

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Letter from Labour Party of Bruff, Co. Limerick to British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928). The letter requests that the British government amend the Labourers Ireland Act, ensuring that each Irish labourer that volunteered in the British army would get a cottage and 10 acres of land; a fair award for 'those heroes who are fighting to protect the integrity of the British Empire from Common foe.'The Labourers (Ireland) Act of 1911 secured funding for the erection of 5000 cottages around Ireland. Herbert Henry Asquith was Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

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 20.2.1916 Labour Assembly Room Bruff To the RT. Hon. H.H. Asquith, K.C.M.P. My Lord At a meeting of the Labour Party of Bruff, Co.Limerick, the following resolution was unanimously adopted on the proposal of Mr.John F.Osborne, Pres. and member of the I.L.L.A. of all Ireland :— 'That we call on the Prime Minister of England, most respectfully, to amend the Labourers Ireland Act, through the channels of legislation, to give each labourer who volunteered under Lord Kitchener's appeal to the young men of Ireland, a cottage and ten acres of land — those heroes who are fighting to protect the integrity of the British Empire from Common foe. office 1919 P.S. 31/1 Mr Brennan Have you file 1919? IOML 28/2 Mr Connolly 1919 was dealt with by the US & was never put away in the Registry 29.2.16 London, England Letter from Lancelot Worthy Horne to Robert Chalmers 31, May 1916Letter from Edward O'Farrell to Bertram Cubitt, 10 June 1916Letter from Lancelot Worthy Horne to Command Paymaster, 8 May 1916Telegram from Basil Home Thomson, Assistant Commissioner at New Scotland Yard, to Sir Neville Chamberlain, 9 April 1916Letter from Sir Edward O'Farrell to Sir Reginald H Brade, War Office, 12 November 1915Letter from John Condon to Herbert Samuel, 17 June 1916Letter from Matthew Nathan to the Treasury, 3 March 1916Letter from Lady Henrietta MacDonnell to Lady Clonbrock, 23 September 1916Postcard from C.D. Groom to Lady Clonbrock, 1 March 1916Letter from Lady Henrietta MacDonnell to Lady Clonbrock, 28 October 1916Letter from Colonel Douglas Proby, to Matthew Nathan, 25 February 1916Letter from Herbert Samuel to Lord Wimbourne, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 15 February 1916Letter from Colonel Douglas Proby to Augustine Birrell, 26 January 1916Letter from Labour Party of Bruff, Co. Limerick to British PM H.H. Asquith, February 1916Letter by Edward O'Farrell to R.J. Nugent, 29 February 1916Letter from the Controller, Foreign Trade Department, to Sir Matthew Nathan, 19 February 1916Telegram from James Davidson to Samuel and Clara Davidson, 8 April 1916Letter from William Haldane Porter to Edward O'Farrell, 1 January 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to M.J. Murphy MP, 11 November 1916Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Mabel FitzGerald, 25 May 1916Letter from Michael Governey to Major General, Army Veterinary Service, 10 January 1916Letter from Henry Lawson to Director General, Army Veterinary Service, 18 January 1916Letter from Andrew Philip Magill to Cecil Harmsworth, 1 April 1916.Letter from Cecil Harmsworth to Augustine Birrell, 31 March 1916Letter from Edward O'Farrell to the Secretary, General Post Office, London, 1 June 1916 Telegram from the Managing Editor, Central News to the Secretary, Dublin Castle, 20 May 1916Letter from Celia Duffin to Auntie D, 3 December 1915Letter from Maria Duffin to Celia Duffin, 13 February 1916Letter from Father Edward Murnane to George Gavan Duffy, 24 July 1916Letter from Laurence Ginnell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 19 May 1916Card from Father Bally to the editor of the Irish Citizen, 2 November 1915Letter from Art Ó Briain to The Commandant, Frongoch Internment Camp 8 September 1916Letter from Art Ó Briain to John J Neeson, 4 September 1916Letter from James O' Dwyer to Art Ó Briain, 31 August 1916Letter from J E Lyons to Miss Coates, 5 July 1916Postcard to Edward Carson, 4 May 1916Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Sir William Henry Thompson, 2 February 1918Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Herbert Eldon Roaf, 14 March 1919Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Captain J.C. O'Farrell, 11 June 1919Letter from Thomas Kirkpatrick to Mrs. R.J. Quin, 30 September 1919Letter from Paddy Guinness to Cesca Chenevix Trench, 6 June 1916Telegram from Basil Home Thomson, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, to Sir Neville Chamberlain, 8 April 1916Letter from Henry Wilson to James Craig, 1922 Bruff, Limerick, Ireland Letter from Labour Party of Bruff, Co. Limerick to British PM H.H. Asquith, February 1916 Labour Party of Bruff Letter from Labour Party of Bruff, Co. Limerick to British PM H.H. Asquith, February 1916