1 The Phoenix
Michael Monahan, Editor & Proprietor
(Originally founded as The Papyrus, July 1903 Subscription - One Dollar the Year
To Foreign Countries, One twenty-five ZN12 Suth Norwalk, Conn August 21, 1916. You have put me under a rare obligation by your
thoughtfulness in sending me the Casement paper which
I might otherwise have missed (I do not see the Times
regularly). It does you everlasting credit and, even more, it
is a high credit to the Irish name. You must also allow
me to take pride in it as an exhibition of ability and
talent such as we are rarely favored with in these dull
times. It is at once a splendid statement of the Irish
question, a poetical justification of Casement and his
fellows, a terrific scorching up of the Ulster Patriots
and their English backers and accomplices and a com-
plete exposure of the value of German friendship for
Ireland. You have cleaned up the subject - there is
nothing more to be said! Finally, as a piece of English this paper is not less
remarkable; there are things in it that recall the
Grattans and the Currans, the noblest traditions of Irish
patriotism and its canonized utterances. I tried to
read it aloud to a friend, and had to stop more than once - 2 The Phoenix
Michael Monahan, Editor & Proprietor
(Originally founded as The Papyrus, July 1903 Subscription - One Dollar the Year
To Foreign Countries, One twenty-five ZN12 Suth Norwalk, Conn #2
perhaps because I am Irish, but I guess even an alien
would feel the pull. That terrible picture of the doing to death of
Casement and his felon's grave will cost the English some-
thing in American friendship and sympathy. Doesn't
it beat the Devil how they can't help blundering in
regarding to us? - it is the heritage of centuries. Faithfully yours,
Michael Monahan