A clipping of a memoriam sheet for the republican soldier Liam Lynch who was shot and killed by Free State forces on 10 April 1923. The memoriam includes an extract from Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’.
A flier announcing the prohibitions on the import of biscuits, boot polishes and soap from Britain. The text reads ‘Civilians must help the active forces by striking an economic blow at England’. The article is signed off by Ernest Blythe, Minister for Trade.
A ticket for the Hill of Howth Tramway, operated by the Great Northern Railway Company, purchased on 24 April 1916, the first day of the Easter Rising. The ticket was purchased by the family of T. Molloy and his description conveys his personal memories of that day. It reads ‘Ticket issued for Easter Monday 1916 to one of a family going to Howth for the day. Coming to Howth Station to return home in the evening great crowds of people were told that no trains were running as there was trouble in the city. I, at the age eight, with my seven-year-old brother, & my father & mother, who carried another two-year-old brother, had, like many others, to walk home that night’.
A clipping of a photograph of a horse killed in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin during the Easter Rising. The caption credits the image to the ‘Illustrated Sunday Herald’.
A flier with the text of a satirical ballad concerning the desire for Irish independence and referencing the Lord Lieutenant Viscount John French and Chief Secretary for Ireland Ian Stewart Macpherson. To be sung to the air of ‘I don't mind if I do". The first line reads ‘Lord French and MacPherson, old Long and old Short …’.
A photographic print of large crowd assembled on O’Connell Bridge and around the O’Connell Monument for a Home Rule demonstration in Dublin. The event was held on 31 March 1912. The large banner on the platform at the base of the O’Connell Monument reads ‘Ireland A Nation’. The rally was organised by the moderate nationalists in the Irish Parliamentary Party.
A clipping of a photograph of Holden Stodart, a member of the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, who was killed in Dublin on 26 April 1916. The image was published in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).