A flyer condemning the 1916 executions and exhorting Americans to stay out of the First World War. “Thank God for Freedom's Martyrs in every Land and Age” is printed under the title.
A toasting card for a nationalist banquet held in the Rotunda in Dublin on 11 December 1883. Includes patriotic toasts to Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish Parliamentary Party, and the Irish National Press.
An image of Irish National Army troops at Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin. Originally constructed for the British military in 1827, the barracks was the first military installation to be handed over to the newly formed Provisional Government on 1 February 1922.
A photographic print of a National Army soldier receiving treatment from a member of St. John’s Ambulance Brigade during the fighting in Dublin at the outset of the Civil War in late June/early July 1922.
Musical score (sheet music) for ‘Amhráin an Oireachtais 1. A Éire mhilis uasal / Tadhg Ua Donnchadha do chum; Riobárd Ua Duibhir do ghléas le haghaidh buidhne ceóil an Oireachtais’ (Dublin, Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1902).
A photograph of Muriel MacSwiney and Terence MacSwiney’s sisters Mary and Annie. The original caption is titled ‘The widow of Terence MacSwiney’ and refers to his death ‘after fasting for 73 days in Brixton Prison’. It also affirms that Muriel MacSwiney ‘collapsed after the long strain and was not with him when he passed out’. The image is credited to World Wide Photos.
A printed copy of Lloyd George’s letter to Sir Horace Plunkett referring to certain reservations about the powers which could be granted to an Irish Representative assembly during the Great War.
An image of the ruined Mount Bolton House near Portlaw in County Waterford. A figure in clerical garb (possibly Fr. Richard Henebry) stands at the doorway.