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1913
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1947
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1913
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1913
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1947
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{"value"=>"IV. William J. Maloney"}
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- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>William J. Maloney was a neurologist and a member of the Irish independence movement in the United States. He was born in 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland to Irish parents. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, Paris, London, and Munich before immigrating to the United States in 1911. He was a professor of nervous and mental diseases at Fordham University and the Post-Graduate Hospital and Medical School in New York City. In 1913 he married Margaret McKim, the daughter of architect Charles Follen McKim. He served in the British Army during World War I and was released in 1916 after being wounded at the battle of Gallipoli. His experiences in war and the executions resulting from the Easter Rising in Dublin turned Maloney against England and made him a supporter of Irish independence.</p> <p>After the Easter Rising, Maloney resigned his commission in the British Army and befriended Daniel F. Cohalan, John Devoy, Patrick McCartan, Joseph McGarrity, Frank Walsh, and other supporters of Irish independence. He joined the Clan-na-Gael and become one of the most prolific writers for its newspaper, <em>The Irish Press</em>. He worked with Eamonn De Valera and the American Commission for Irish Independence in 1919 to raise funds for the Irish bond drive. He supported McGarrity and De Valera in the controversy over the bond drive and, as a result, fell out of favor with Cohalan and Devoy. Devoy put about that Maloney was a British spy in an attempt to discredit him. Maloney denied the allegation.</p> <p>In addition to his writing for The Irish Press, Maloney was also able to secure space for his opinions in the <em>New York Evening Post</em>, being related to its owner, Oswald Garrison Villard, through marriage. He published several books and pamphlets on political issues, including <em>The Book of the Prophet Wudro</em>, calling for the impeachment of Woodrow Wilson, and <em>The Reconquest of America</em>, a satire on British propaganda in America.</p> <p>After the Irish Civil War and the creation of the Irish Free State, Maloney seems to have assumed a smaller role in Irish political circles in the United States. He maintained his friendships with the people he had met during that time and continued to follow the subject. He published <em>The Forged Casement Diaries</em> in 1936. In the Diaries, Maloney sought to prove that the Black Diaries presented during Roger Casement's trial were fake. The Black Diaries offered proof the Casement was a homosexual, which caused many of his friends and supporters to desert him during his trial.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The William J. Maloney series contains correspondence, articles, bond certificates, ephemera, photographs, and other material relating to Irish politics and other topics. The correspondence consists mainly of letters written to and from Maloney regarding his book, <em>The Forged Casement Diaries</em>, and relating to his work in the United States for the independence of Ireland. The articles include items written by Maloney and others on the struggle for Irish independence.</p>"}
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