1 Ashford, Charleville 17 May '16 Sir I beg to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter of 12th. which
has been forwarded to me here. I have read very carefully
your allegations against MrThomas,
Wall, and Mr.. Michael Hayes, I
do not see in them any justification
for disciplining action in any part
against them. They are both excellent
priests, who hold rather
but I do not know that they have
violated any law, civil or ec-
-clesiastical. In your letter of 6th inst.
I'm appealed to me to keep free &
the further area of town walk &
Dublin hertlin of Ireland. Even 2
to you in Dublin. If their first information
which we get of their fate was the
announcement they had been
shot in cold blood. Personally
I defend their actions with heroism
and I believe that it has entrapped
the conscience of the country. Then the deporting by hundreds
and then murdered by their
fellows, without trial of any kind
seems to me an abuse of power,
as fatuous as it is arbitrary, and
altogether your regime has
been one of the worst and
blackened chapters in the keeping
of the government of this country I have thehappily who
Mrs w.
SirGeneral
Sir G.G. Maxwell
Commander, Dublin 3 if active in that parish it was not inside
my province that circumstances
the events of the past few locally would
make it impossible for me to have
any part in proceedings which
as wantonly cruel and oppressive. In December the government
said, when a number of British
mercenaries invaded a friendly
state and fought the republican
lawful government If each case
deserved the supreme punishment
it was they. But officially and
unofficially then if influence of the
British Government was
them, and it succeeded. You took care that plea of
mercy interpose no unlikely
often young like a
surrendered.