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    1. [IRL-CARLOW] Hunting and Races the other side.
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    3. >From the PPP. Letter addressed to, Lord Rathdonnell, Lisnavagh. Brigadier-General Robert Browne-Clayton, Brownes Hill. Mr.W.E. Grogan, Moyle House.:---- Carlow, April 11th 1919. Sirs, Owing to the treatment of political prisoners in Belfast and other jails, we the undersigned, will not permit the Carlow Hunt Races to be run over the land unless the accompanying resolution be signed by the Carlow Hunt Race Committee. --- Signed by, Peter Doyle, Clonmelsh. Richard Doyle, Clonmelsh. Laurence Connell. Letter addressed to, H. Herring Cooper, Esq. :----- Graiguecullen Sinn Fein Club, 11th April 1919. Sir, At a meeting of the above Club held today, I was directed to get into communication with the owners of the lands of Milford, over which the Hunt Races are to be run on Easter Monday, with a view to preventing same unless a resolution as attached was adopted by your Hunt Races Committee, and copies of same sent to the Press and Mr. Ian McPearson. --- Yours truly, P.Whitney, P.Gaffney, Hon. Secs. RESOLUTION. RESOLVED ---That we the members of the Hunt Races Committee, strongly protest against the callous and harsh treatment meted out to our fellow-countrymen in Belfast and other Irish and British Prisons, and also condemn the breach of faith of the Castle Authorities in their compact with Most Rev. Dr. McRory, L.O' Neill, Lord Mayor of Dublin; and Austin Stack, T.D.E. Signed : ____________________________________________________________________________________________

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