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This letter was written by Sir John Grenfell Maxwell (1859-1929) to Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer (1842-1917), who served as the Bishop of Limerick from 1888 to his death.
Maxwell had been appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in Ireland during the Easter Rising and was responsible for the suppression of the Rising. In this letter Maxwell urges O'Dwyer to prevent priests from 'mixing up in organisations that are a danger to the realm.' This letter refers specifically to the activities of Father Michael Hayes (b. 1871) and Father Thomas Wall.
Bishop O'Dwyer would later become renown for his letter to Maxwell on 30 May in which he denounced the shooting of the insurgency leaders of Easter Week 1916 ‘in cold blood’ and the deporting of thousands without trial, and declared Maxwell's regime ‘one of the worst and blackest chapters in the history of the misgovernment of this country'