Aet. 48, to William Henry Brayden. editor of the Freeman’s Journal.
During a Christmas party at Tullira in 1899, Edward Martyn forbade the singing of God Save the Queen and The Absent-Minded Beggar.
In February 1900 Lord Clonbrock, Lord Lieutenant of County Galway, privately suggested that Martyn had violated his oath of allegiance as a civil magistrate. Martyn then resigned as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of County Galway.
In the Galway Observer (31 March 1900) the resignation was reported in a series of letters between Martyn and Clonbrock; in the issue of 14 April 1900 Martyn addressed the Galway Board of Guardians confirming that his resignation was a protest against England’s “alien” authority in Ireland
George Moore cited the double whammy against Irish landlords of the Irish Land Commission created in 1881 and the Congested Districts Board created under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act in 1891.
Queen Victoria visited Ireland 4-26 April 1900; she was present there when George’s letter was published in the Freeman’s Journal.
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