Letter from Margret O'Brien to Ivor Guest, Lord Wimborne, 23 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Margaret O'Brien

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Letter from Margret O'Brien to Lord Wimborne. Sir Ivor Churchill Guest (1873-1939), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1915 to 1918. From the beginning of 1916 Wimborne began agitating for measures to be taken against the Irish Volunteers, but was constantly dissuaded by Birrell and Nathan. However, Wimborne's early recommendations for action reflected favorably on him after the 1916 Rising. In the letter, O'Brien discuses her request for the exhumation of her husband's body due to it's burial in the wrong grave. She goes on to state the grave is the property of the Arnold family and she requests that her husband's body be moved.

National Archives of Ireland Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers; CSO RP/1916/5613/9083/1 https://letters1916.ie/item/2204 English Margaret O'Brien 1916-05-23 The Green, Midleton, County Cork, Ireland Ivor Guest Female Industry and Public Administration Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Industry and Public Administration

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 The Green,Middleton, Co. Cork 23 May 1916 To The ExcellencyEarl WimborneLord Lieutenant of Ireland May it Please Your Excellency, I respectfully begto enclose a communication receivedfrom the Local Government Boardin reply to one addressed to thatBoard requesting permission forthe disinterment of the remainsof my husband in the burial -ground attached to the ProtestantChurch at Middleton. Further I beg toinform Your Excellency that fourmonths since my husband'sremains were in error interredin a grave the property of afamily named Arnold; and YourExcellency's authority is now prayedto have the remains removedto an adjoining grave — my husband'sone — in the cemetery. I have the honour to remainYour Excellency's Servant Mrs Margaret OBrien Margaret O'Brien Letter from Margret O'Brien to Ivor Guest, Lord Wimborne, 23 May 1916 The Green, Midleton, County Cork, Ireland Letter from Margret O'Brien to Ivor Guest, Lord Wimborne, 23 May 1916Letter from Jerome J. Ronayne to Margaret O'Brien, 14 June 1916Letter from Sir Edward O'Farrell to Margaret O'Brien, 8 June 1916