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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
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