Letter from P. Burrowes Shiel to Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, 27 March 1916.

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Letter from P. Burrowes Shiel to Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, 27 March 1916.

1 8 Earlsfort Mansions,
Dublin, 27th March 1916 Sir, In August last year I transmitted to you my application for a Govern-
ment position supported by the letters of recommendation of the Vice-
President of the Local Government Board Ireland and a statement of my
qualifications, and I was favored by your reply in acknowledgement that
at that date there was no post or opportunity available to you to
offer me. A vacancy now exists in the Chief Crown Solicitorship at Dublin, and
will you permit me to remind you of my the application of which you
stated a record had been made, and in regard to that vacancy to now be
your consideration of my request, I remain, Sir,
your obedient servant, P. Burrowes Shiel
To,
the Right Hon Aug us tine Birrell. PC.MP. Irish Office.
London. SW.

This letter was written by Peter Burrowes Shiel (c.1874-1939), a solicitor, to Augustine Birrell (1850-1933). Birrell was the Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 until his retirement in 1916 following the aftermath of the Easter Rising, for which Birrell accepted responsibility. The letter notes that in 1915 Burrowes had made an application for a government position but there had been none available. Following the death of the former Chief Crown Solicitor, Malachy Kelly (1851-1916), Burrowes requests that he be considered for the vacant position.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1715.html)