Letter from John Sweetman to Herbert Pim, 15 September 1916

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Letter from John Sweetman to Herbert Pim, 15 September 1916

1 Copy Drumbaragh, Kells
Co. Meath
Sept 15th, 1916
Herbert Pim Esq.
65 University Road, Belfast.

Dear Sir:- If you are ever in Dublin
I should like to have an opportunity
of meeting you to have a talk about
the future, although I am too old
to take any active part in any
movement. I subscribed £1- to the Anti-
Partition League which has grown
into the Irish Nation League. I enclose
copies of my letters to the latter and
also a letter of mine which appeared
in New Ireland of June 24th although
it was written before the rising in
Easter week. My having been a fellow prisoner
with you in Richmond Barracks,
although in a different room,
must be my excuse for writing. Yours truly
John Sweetman

This letter was written by John Sweetman (1844-1936). Sweetman was a member of Sinn Féin and patron to Arthur Griffith. In 1915 he spoke out against conscription and was arrested in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. The letter was addressed to Herbert Moore Pim (1883-1950). Pim published a pamphlet series entitled 'Tracts of our times', including writings by Patrick Pearse, and in early 1916 founded the literary and political monthly, 'The Irishman'. He joined the Volunteer muster in Coalisland at Easter 1916, and was arrested after the rising and deported to Reading gaol. He was released in September 1916. In this letter Sweetman writes that he would like to meet Pim to discuss the future but states that he is too old to take any active part in the volunteer movement. Sweetman also mentions that himself and Pim were both prisoners at Richmond barracks.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__2277.html)