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Greenview, The Ridge, Maryboro, Queens Co July 29th 16 Mrs.Stopford Green Dear Madam I enclose you the
petition signed by
15 ratepayers and
myself, and I wish
the cause every success
as I am sure everyone
in Ireland and America
does today. Faithfully Yours Joseph Delaney.
This letter is from Joseph Delaney to Alice Stopford Green (1847-1929). It was sent
from Maryborough (now Portlaoise) in Queen's County (now Laois). A campaign was launched
featuring many prominent figures such as W.B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw to secure
a reprieve for Casement but he was hanged on 3 August 1916. Delaney was a supporter
of the campaign and the letter refers to signatures for a petition.Alice Stopford
Green was an Irish historian and nationalist. While not a supporter of armed rebellion,
her house provided a space for leading nationalists to meet. Stopford Green had collaborated
with Roger Casement on Congo Reform and, after the Easter Rising in 1916, she tried
to save him from execution