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Letter from George Noble Plunkett to Mr O'Brien to apologise for missing an appointment. He further notes that he will be changing address shortly. Count Plunkett was a nationalist and a papal count. He had been sworn in to the IRB by his son, Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916), before the Rising and arrested afterwards. Count Plunkett was elected as an MP in 1918 and was a member of the first Dáil. In the wake of the 1916 Rising, Arthur Patrick O'Brien founded the Irish National Relief Fund in London to provide assistance to the families of Irish rebels.
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