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'.
A clipping of a report on the funeral of Helena Concannon published in the ‘Irish Press’ (29 February 1952). Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. were among the mourners.
A clipping of an article reporting on the funeral of Fr. Mícheál Ó Flannagáin (Michael O’Flanagan) in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. The clipping is taken from ‘The Kerryman’ (16 August 1942).
A photographic print of the funeral of the sculptor Albert Power in Dublin. The mourners include Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. The photograph is credited to the 'Irish Press'.
The front cover of the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (Vol. XXXIX, No. 14, 26 May 1922). The cover has drawings of Éamon de Valera and Michael Collins. The artist is credited as Frank Leah (1886-1972). (Volume page 203).
A photograph of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (second from left) with two unidentified republicans in Freemasons’ Hall (or ‘Masonic Hall’) on Molesworth Street in Dublin. The two Capuchin friars visited the Hall following its seizure by anti-Treaty republicans in April 1922.
