We have just added a featured letter post to the site. The post was created by Sean Driver, an English Studies graduate from Trinity College, Dublin. Sean is currently completing an M.Phil in Digital Humanities and Culture and hopes to pursue a career as an English Teacher.
The feature deals with a letter which was written by Joseph Michael Stanley to George Bernard Shaw, dated 28 March 1916. The letter details a sequence of events commencing with the raid of the offices of the Gaelic Press on Friday the 24th of March. The raid and seizure described occur less than a month before the Easter Rising and show that the authorities were undertaking a concerted attempt to break up the small presses.