Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 9 August 1916
Carrigaholt,
Co.Clare 9th Augt 1916 Dear Mrs Greene I have just heard
from Miss Josephine Webb 12 Brighton
Square Rathgar Dublin that she
forwarded 3 petitions. I had
in my list only credited her
with one. So please add
two petitions (Dublin) to those
already given in the lists I
sent you yesterday. We could
I think give you a list of those
who signed the College petition &
it might be possible to fwd only
some of those who signed the
Carrigaholt petition. I could 2
find out the name of the man
who asked for signatures & took the
petition through the district. He
would certainly remember who the
chief people were. I think too I
would give the names & addresses
of those who worked the petitions
in each district. It is no
exaggeration to say that we could
have got hundreds of petitions
if we had printed slips& a
greater number of workers & more
time. There were just a few
of us here & we had no
lists of addresses through Ireland
so had to work through people
we happened to know in a
few districts. Sincerely yours Ella Young 3 Lists of Petitions
Cross 2
Kilkee 1
Carrigaholt 1
O'Curry College 1
Kilbaha 1
Limerick 1
Galway 1
Grange (sligo) 1
Clare Island 1
Achill 3
Waterford 1
Enniskerry 1
Dublin 2
Toomgrainey 1
Foynes 1
Killen 1
Carlow 1
Letchworth England 3
Rotherfield (Kent) 1
Tullow 1
Rathvilly 1
Munny (Co Wicklow 1
Shillelagh 1 Clonmore 1
Carlow
Dingle 1
Cork 1
Ring 1
Mallranny 1
Ballyferriter 1 Total 35 *{Killala
{Dundalk
{Ballycastle
{Rathlin N.B. In all probability
these districts sent in
petitions but we have not
yet been informed that they
did so. Mr.C.Chavasse
furnished them with a
petition in Gaelic.
A letter from Ella Young (1867–1956) to Alice Stopford Green (1847-1929). In this letter, written on 9 August 1916, she reports on the collection of signatures for the reprieve of Roger Casement (who was hanged for treason on 3 August, having been arrested on the eve of the Easter Rising) and includes a list of petitions by location. She comments that there could have been many more petitions circulated if there had been more slips and more workers available. Ella Young, was a poet, republican, and mystic actively involved in the Celtic Revival. Alice Stopford Green was an Irish historian and nationalist. While not a supporter of armed rebellion, her house provided a space for leading nationalists to meet. Stopford Green had collaborated with Roger Casement on Congo Reform and, after the Easter Rising in 1916, she tried to save him from execution
How to cite
Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__5492.html)
- Place
- The O'Curry College, Carrigaholt, County Clare
- Mentioned in
- Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 6 August 1916
- Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 9 August 1916
- Mentioned in
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- Letter from Alice Stopford Green to Herbert Henry Asquith, 17 May 1916.
- Letter from Alice Stopford Green to General Botha, 16 June 1916.
- Letter from Mary O'Nolan to Alice Stopford Green, 25 July 1916
- Letter from Michael Fogarty to Alice Stopford Green, 1916 July 26.
- Letter from Michael James Quin to Alice Stopford Green, 28 July 1916
- Letter from Maurice Moore to Alice Stopford Green, 27 July 1916
- Letter from M. J. O'Donnell to Alice Stopford Green, 28 July 1916
- Letter from Fr Michael O'Flanagan to Alice Stopford Green, 30 July 1916
- Letter from Joseph Delaney to Alice Stopford Green, 29 July 1916
- Letter from John J. O'Mahony to Alice Stopford Green, 29 August 1916
- Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 6 August 1916
- Letter from James O'Shea to Alice Stopford Green, 30 July 1916
- Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 9 August 1916
- Letter from Alice Stopford Green to John Quinn, 27 August 1916