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Ein Münchner Mysterium

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• beachcomber australia said:

  September 1915, according to this version - www.irishbrigade.eu/other-men/gaffney/gaffney.html

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia I will update the date.

• Carol Maddock said:

  beachcomber australia I'm confused. It says (September 1915) under the photo in that Gaffney piece, but the text that follows says...

  1915 Aug 24 The "celebrated" Lunch in Munich at which Gaffney was the host and Casement a guest. Gaffey was later dismissed by the US governemnt as Consul because of this.

• John Spooner said:

  Rough and ready translation: "The well-known (lit. oft-mentioned) Irish MP, Sir Roger Casement, against whom the British envoy, Lord Findlay, eho is still in office, arranged an murder attempt in Oslo by bribing the Irish leader's servant, with the American consul-general Gaffney in the Preysing Palais restaurant in Munich."
  
  John Spooner BA (German Language and Literature)
  
  Learning to read Frakturschrift in 1976-ish was going to come in handy one day, and today's the day.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  John Spooner The right man in the right place at the right time. Absolut fantastisch!!