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Edward Lee Model Employer and Man of Moral Courage © Michael Lee 2016 mikelee2653@gmail.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrievable system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior permission of the copyright holder. Cover photographs. Top. Edward Lee’s first shop at No 2, Goldsmith Terrace, Bray. Annie Lee in the 1920s. Middle. Edward and Annie with their four sons (circa 1906). Granite pediment, Edward Lee & Co. Ltd, Dún Laoghaire. Bottom. Edward Lee & Co. Ltd, Dún Laoghaire (circa 1940s). Bray Urban District Council 1906. Portrait photograph of Edward Lee ( circa early 1920s). All photographs Lee archive. ISBN 978-0-9956091-0-5 Produced by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Designed, printed and bound by Concept2Print
Contents Foreword by Pádraig Yeates 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgements 10 Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath 12 John Wesley 13 Tyrrellspass 1853 14 Edward Lee & Co. 1885 16 Social Conscience 19 The Grange 23 America and Canada 1904 26 Benefactor 34 1913 Lockout 35 Sir Hugh Lane 42 Bellevue and Home Rule 44 The Great War 1914-1918 46 Town Tenants League 50 The Sinking of the RMS Leinster 51 A Place in the Sun 53 1920s and 30s 55 An Honest Christian Man 60 Appendix: Memoranda of a Hurried Visit to America and Canada 1904 63
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profit for the capitalists, as some
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that any firm advertising in certai
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