File 2 - Irish History / Bound Photographic and Document Volume

A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Recent Irish History’. The volume is a ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting Volume’. The content is wide ranging and includes numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, some original photographs, fliers, ephemera, and pasted-in content relating primarily to the Irish Revolution and partition. The volume also includes many documents relating to the anti-Treaty interest during the Civil War. Many clippings of obituaries are also present in the volume. An alphabetical index of individuals (and some events) referred to in the documents is present in the opening pages of the volume. The volume is paginated.
The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following:
• William O’Brien
• Bishop Edward O’Dwyer
• Éamon de Valera
• Thomas Ashe
• Terence MacSwiney
• Arthur Griffith
• Liam Mellows
• Roger Casement
• Kilmainham Jail
• Seán Treacy
• Elizabeth O’Farrell
• Mount St. Benedict, Gorey, County Wexford
• Kevin Barry
• Julia Grenan
• Katharine O’Shea
• President de Valera’s view on the Boundary Commission (1924)
• Michael Collins
• Archbishop Daniel Mannix
• Erskine Childers
• Cathal Brugha
• Douglas Hyde
• Senator David Robinson
• Vere Foster
• Alfred O’Rahilly
• Patrick John Little
• Arthur Clery
• Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO
• John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair. (His departure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1915).
• Hugo Flinn
• Fr. Peter Yorke
• ‘Proposed terms of settlement’ (typescript draft, 7 May 1923)
• ‘Behind stone walls’. Refers to the continued imprisonment of republicans by the Free State government during the Civil War.
• Niall Mac Giolla Bhrighde (Neil McBride)
• Voting paper for the ‘Masonic Orphan Boys’ School Election – November 1942’
• ‘Propaganda’ / an address delivered by the auditor Louis V. Nolan at the solicitors buildings, Four Courts, 27 October 1942
• ‘Leo O’Brien / His life in service in the movement for Ireland’s Independence’. For more information on Leo O’Brien see https://www.irishcatholic.com/fighting-for-irelands-freedom-drove-me-mad-claimed-convicted-murderer/
• T. J. Kiernan
• ‘Memorandum of Ambulance work & efforts for peace’ by John P. Homan (d. 1944), Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. The document refers to his work with St. John’s Ambulance during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin in June-July 1922. Mention is made of his interactions with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and the friar’s efforts to secure a cessation of hostilities.
• An original pamphlet titled ‘Who is the real foe of the Irish / (by Hugh O’Neill)’ [c.1917]. 11 pp.