Address / Nicholas Boylan, 1844

Framed embossed manuscript address to Nicholas Boylan, from Daniel O’Connell. Describing him as “a patriot and a truehearted Irish Gentleman”, dated at Richmond Bridewell, 6 September 1844, “the last day of the captivity”, and also signed by a number of O’Connell’s Repeal associates including Thomas Matthew Ray, Secretary of the Repeal Association, Charles Gavan Duffy, Editor of The Nation, John Gray, Editor of The Freeman, Richard Barrett, Editor of The Pilot, Corn. MacLoughlin and Jeremiah Dunne (O’Connell’s bailsmen), Thomas Steele, “O’Connell’s Head Pacificator of Ireland”, John O’Connell MP (son of Daniel), his wife Eliza O’Connell, Susan Barrett and others, most of the signatures also dated 6 September 1844 at Richmond Bridewell. Nicholas Boylan of Hilltown House in Meath was a close associate of O’Connell, and chaired his mass meeting at Tara. In May 1843 he was removed from his position as MP for Meath. He was reinstated in 1846.;