Did Michael Comyn have any dealings with William Wylie or Sir John Grenfell Maxwell?
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No direct evidence exists of personal or professional dealings between Michael Comyn KC and either William Evelyn Wylie or Sir John Grenfell Maxwell.
With William Wylie
Comyn and Wylie were both prominent Irish barristers in Dublin during the early 20th century, operating in overlapping legal circles (e.g., the Munster circuit for Comyn and general Dublin practice for Wylie). However, no records indicate specific interactions, collaborations, or courtroom encounters.
Wylie served as prosecutor in the immediate 1916 Easter Rising court-martials (May 1916), while Comyn was abroad in Kansas City and only began defending republican prisoners in military courts and appeals from late 1916 onward—after the initial executions and when martial law proceedings continued under different prosecutors.
With Sir John Grenfell Maxwell
Maxwell, as military governor, oversaw the 1916 suppressions and court-martials but departed Ireland in late 1916 (replaced in November). Comyn’s defenses of internees and later republicans occurred under ongoing martial law but post-Maxwell’s tenure, with no documented petitions, correspondence, or direct involvement linking Comyn to him.
Biographical sources (e.g., Dictionary of Irish Biography entries on Comyn and Maxwell) and historical accounts of the period emphasize their separate roles—Comyn as a nationalist defender, Wylie as a unionist prosecutor, and Maxwell as the enforcing general—without noting any intersections.
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