Documento 11 - Copy cable from Diarmuid Lynch to Terence MacSwiney

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Copy cable from Diarmuid Lynch (1878-1950), New York, to Terence MacSwiney, City Hall, Cork, confirming that ‘Fogarty got no commission whatever from and was not authorised to act or speak for myself or friends. Advise Dublin’. Annotation reads: ‘Received 16 July 1920’. Copy in the hand of Liam de Róiste; With [copy] letter from Liam de Róiste (1882-1959) to Diarmuid Lynch acknowledging Lynch’s cable referring to the aforementioned Fogarty. In Irish.

Diarmuid Lynch: Immediately following his release from British captivity (6 June 1917), Lynch became active and, along with Michael Collins and Thomas Ashe, participated in the reorganisation the IRB. After the 1917 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, Lynch, like Collins, held three senior posts in the IRB, Sinn Féin and in the Irish Volunteers. His position as Sinn Féin food controller resulted in his deportation to England in 1918. Lynch was deported to America and shortly afterwards was appointed Secretary of the Friends of Irish Freedom, originally set up to raise funds and lobby in Washington to promote the Irish cause for independence. Under his tenure the organisation became a nation-wide lobby group.
Liam de Róiste was a member of the Irish Volunteers and fought in the Easter Rising in 1916 with the Cork City Battalion. He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for the Cork City constituency at the 1918 general election. He later supported Collins and voted for the Anglo-Irish Treaty.