Ireland

A program detailing an Irish Industrial Exhibition. Also includes a list of patrons of the exhibit.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about her trip to Ireland and Irish/English politics as well as current happenings in Oyster Bay, New York. Their brother Elliott is doing much better. Roosevelt continues to enjoy playing polo and lists the people he has visited with lately. His “magnum opus” is progressing slowly.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1888-06-24

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about her recent trip to Ireland. He says Ireland is a terrible problem for the English. He also updates her about happenings in Oyster Bay, New York. Daughter Alice has returned home from a visit with her late mother’s family. There is some trouble with the servants. The polo club is doing well, as is baby Ted.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1888-06-10

William Michael Byrne’s address welcomes John Edward Redmond to the United States and applauds his efforts on behalf of Irish independence.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-25

Silas McBee tells Theodore Roosevelt he spoke about Roosevelt’s public life, praised his Outlook article, enclosed an advance proof and Senator Lodge’s letter, and noted an item on Sir Horace’s work in Ireland.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-12

Arthur Hamilton Lee is enjoying his holiday in the Scottish Highlands and feels refreshed after engaging in outdoor recreation. He is glad to hear Theodore Roosevelt is likewise taking pleasure in his leisure. Lee discusses recent British political issues, including debates over Constitutional law and Irish Home Rule. Additionally, he comments on international relations between Morocco, Germany, and France, and the United States’ proposed arbitration treaty with Great Britain. Hopefully, in the near future, he and his wife, Ruth Moore Lee, can travel to the United States and visit the Roosevelt family. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-10

At the beginning of his appointment as British Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Bryce thanks President Roosevelt for his letter, and tells him how privileged he feels to cooperate on behalf of England for the good of relations between the two countries and for peace in the world.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-02

James Jeffrey Roche shares his views on a range of topics with President Roosevelt, including Roosevelt’s handling of Bellamy Storer’s “indiscretion” in Rome, the public’s response to the Brownsville case, and Roche’s support for Roosevelt’s simplified spelling idea.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-28

Arthur Hamilton Lee is hopeful that James Bryce will prove to be more useful in Washington, D.C., than his predecessor, H. Mortimer Durand. He has been talking to King Edward VII about Anglo-American affairs and summarized what happened in the Russo-Japanese negotiations for peace. The King was excited to hear of peaceful intentions and attitudes emanating from the United States. Looking back on it, Lee is grateful for the opportunity to frame President Roosevelt in a good light for the King. Lee is proud in general of what he has been able to orchestrate mostly out of the eye of the public.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-24

Finley Peter Dunne accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation and discusses the role of the Irish in American politics. Dunne is concerned about Roosevelt’s pro-English comments and expresses his disgust with the English government.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-01

This program contains a list of The Ranelagh Lectures by William Michael Byrne. Lecture topics include Ireland and religion.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-21

An elderly couple embarks on a leisurely grand tour of Europe, stopping in Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, and Egypt, before returning home exhausted and in poor health from the activity and stress of travel.

comments and context

Comments and Context

Ehrhart’s theme and cartoon vignettes echoed the idea behind the very successful cartoon series in Life Magazine by Charles Dana Gibson only two years before, “The Education of Mr. Pipp.” In that series of cartoons, Mr. Pipp also had to deal with a flirtatious wife and three beautiful and eligible daughters as they “did the Tour” — traveled around Europe. 

Illustration showing Britannia wearing a robe decorated with shamrocks, an armor breastplate, helmet, and with a large sword at her side, wooing a figure representing Ireland sitting in a chair. Caption: Britannia. — I love you so! Pat. — Begorra, Ma’am, this is very suddint!

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Comments and Context

1900 was one of the high-water marks in the choppy seas of centuries of English-Irish conflicts. Independence from England was to be granted to the majority of Irish counties in 1922, after increasing riots and the momentous Hunger Strike of Irish freedom fighters in 1916. While Ireland was a constituent part of Great Britain, it sent representatives to the Parliament at Whitehall and members were variously wooed and shunned by British parties. In 1900 there was a movement in Dublin to reunite a political party that tilted toward Republicanism — independence. As the cartoon shows, Lady Britannia flirted with the gullible Irish, a ploy that was in fact growing less successful. 

Theodore Roosevelt writes to James J. Walsh to congratulate him on his article about Americanisms and Elisabethan English phrases. He would like to have lunch with Walsh on Tuesday or Friday and wants to know what his plans are for the summer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-11

Theodore Roosevelt feels exactly the way Major Luria does about Americanism. Roosevelt does not care where a man is born if he has got the right spirit in him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-11-17

Theodore Roosevelt shares with Mrs. Joseph Lannin that his secretary is descended from two of the Irishmen who had to flee to Newfoundland after the death of the Irish revolutionary Lord Edward Fitzgerald in 1798. Roosevelt’s married children want their childhood books for their own descendants.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-11-03

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Irish nationalist politician, John Edward Redmond, about Redmond’s turning down of a position on Prime Minister Herbert Asquith’s Coalition Cabinet. Redmond’s rival, Unionist Sir Edward Carson, was also offered a place in the cabinet. Roosevelt has been reading William Edward Hartpole Lecky’s Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-06-01

Theodore Roosevelt expresses his approval of Lady Gregory’s plans to establish an American theater and praises Gregory’s work in Irish theater and poetry.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-04-02

Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that John St. Loe Strachey liked his book, America and the World War. He appreciates that Strachey loves the United States but understands this affection pales in comparison to the love Strachey feels for his own country. Roosevelt believes this is the attitude everyone should take. In the book, Roosevelt wanted to be just towards Germany but he feels that Great Britain was in the right. However, he warns against antagonizing the United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-22

An article Theodore Roosevelt wrote on exercising the naval right of search will be published soon and it generally follows Ambassador Spring Rice’s opinion. If he were president, Roosevelt would not let anyone exercise the right of search but he would also have intervened on behalf of Belgium and prevented Americans from violating neutrality. Roosevelt views President Wilson as a timid, unscrupulous, coldblooded, and selfish man. He believes Wilson is attempting to keep the support of pacifists and placate the German and Irish vote. Eventually, Great Britain and France will need American help and Wilson will become the “righteous peace-maker.” Wilson’s current misconduct will then be forgotten.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-11