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Clemency for Irish Prisoners Considered

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1916Date range
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1916

Henry Herbert Asquith8 May 1916

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

Addresses parliamentary appeals for clemency toward prisoners detained after the Easter Rising.

Names involved

Henry Herbert Asquith

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