Showing 1495 results

An information sheet titled ‘George Bernard Shaw appeals to the IRA / friendship with Britain’. The document quotes from remarks by George Bernard Shaw with ‘Ireland's answer’ signed by P. Fleming ‘on behalf of the Government of the Republic’.

A photographic print of General Richard Mulcahy at the formal handover of Beggars Bush Barracks to the National Army in Dublin on 1 February 1922. Captain O’Daly (right) has just been presented with the colours.

A republican flier with the text of a ballad be sung to the air of ‘Where the Blarney roses grow’. The first line reads ‘Twas over in Rathcormac, near the town of old Fermoy’. Cuthbert Lucas became Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade in Ireland in 1919. During the Irish War of Independence, in June 1920 he was captured by the IRA and held in East Clare. He was released four weeks later.

Photographic print on card of a Gaelic football team (most likely students from St. Enda’s School). Print by Henry Roe MacMahon, 11 Harcourt Street, Dublin.

A satirical republican flier celebrating the demise of the pro-Treaty ‘Freeman’s Journal’ newspaper in 1924. The flier promotes a ‘funeral procession’ and notes that the newspaper ceased publication ‘from an acute attack of Clerical Intimidation, Softening of the Back-bone, and other painful disorders’. Reference is made to the former proprietors of the ‘Freeman’s Journal’, Francis Higgins (c.1745-1802), probably better known as the ‘Sham Squire’, and Sir John Gray (1815-1875).

A clipping of an article reporting on the funeral of William Woodlock. The article notes that Woodlock died on 12 June 1890 (aged 58). It reads ‘The remains of the late Mr. William Woodlock JP, one of the Divisional Police Magistrates of Dublin, were removed this morning from his residence, Mounty Square, for internment in Glasnevin Cemetery … the burial service was recited by the Most Rev. [Bartholomew] Woodlock, Bishop of Ardagh’. The article notes that Bishop Bartholomew Woodlock was William Woodlock’s uncle.

A clipping of an image of the funeral of Noel Lemass, a republican whose mutilated body was found on Featherbed in the Dublin Mountains on 12 October 1923. He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery following a requiem mass at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin.

A photographic print of the funeral of procession of Michael Collins in Dublin on 28 August 1922. The volume contains nine images of the funeral procession including images of Dublin Fire Brigade personnel and their horse-drawn vehicles and motor fire engines.

A clipping of a short article reporting on the funeral of Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947) at the Church of Annunciation in Rathfarnham, Dublin. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Press’ (17 Nov. 1947). The article reads 'The President, Taoiseach and members of the Government were among those who attended the funeral of Miss Mary Brigid Pearse, which took place to Glasnevin Cemetery on Saturday, after Mass in the Church of the Annunciation, Rathfarnham, celebrated by Rev. Joseph Mallin, S.J., son of the executed 1916 leader, and a former pupil of St. Enda's'.