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Fr Michael O'Flanagan (1876–1942) was a Catholic priest and well-known republican activist. He was elected vice president of Sinn Féin in 1917. He became vice president of Sinn Féin In October 1917 along with Arthur Griffith who was at the date of the letter interred in Gloucester prison. O'Flanagan has been asked to canvas for Griffith in recently announced by election in East Cavan. Bishop Patrick Finegan is not the Bishop to whom O'Flanagan reports directly - as O'Flanagan is a known and prominent speaker and activist, he has received this letter from Bishop Finegan who has responsibility for nearby towns where election speeches will be known to be made in the coming months during the election campaign.
The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).