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¹⁶ Sentence of penal servitude for life was passed on MacNeill on 24 May 1916 at Richmond Barracks. In June his solicitor, Edward Byrne, obtained an official copy of the court martial proceedings from the Judge Advocate General’s Office, London. This explains how a full typescript copy of the proceedings, running to 118 folio pages, came into the possession of the MacNeill family. It is entitled ‘Proceedings of a general court martial held at Dublin on the 22nd day of May 1916 by order of General Sir J. G. Maxwell...... commanding in chief the forces in Ireland, dated the 18th of May 1916’, and is hereafter cited as ‘MacNeill court martial proc.’.

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