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{"value"=>"V. Patrick McCartan"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Patrick McCartan was an Irish doctor, politician, and republican born in 1878 in Carrickmore, Ireland. He traveled to Philadelphia in 1901 and renewed his friendship with Joseph McGarrity, who was also born in Carrickmore. He joined the Clan-na-Gael and worked on its newspaper, Irish Freedom. He returned to Ireland in 1905 to study medicine with the support of McGarrity. There he joined the Gaelic League and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, where he met Thomas Clarke, Bulmer Hobson, and Denis McCullough.</p> <p>McCartan fell out with Clarke over the Easter Rising, refusing to deploy the County Tyrone branch of the Irish Volunteers without confirmation that Roger Casement had landed successfully with arms from Germany. McCartan was arrested soon after the Rising and was sent to an open prison in England, which he left in 1917. He was elected to the Dáil in 1918 and was nominated by Eamonn De Valera to be the representative in the United States of the Sinn Fein party. He returned to America that year and began to work with McGarrity, William J. Maloney, and other members of the Clan-na-Gael.</p> <p>McCartan traveled to Russia at De Valera's request in 1920. He reprised his role as envoy and unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate a treaty with the Soviets. He returned to Ireland in 1921 and was reelected to office. He quit politics later that year over the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the resulting Irish Civil War. He returned to politics in 1945, running unsuccessfully for President. He helped to establish the political party Clann na Poblachta in 1948 and was nominated to Seanad Éireann, the senate of Ireland, where he served until 1951.</p> <p>In 1932 McCartan published In America with De Valera about his work for the recognition of the Irish Republic. He died in 1966.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains correspondence between Patrick McCartan and others, a report on his trip to Russia in 1920-1921, and notes and clippings.</p>"}
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