A copy of ‘Prison Bars / an organ of the Women’s Prisoners Defence League’ (No. 19, November 1938). This edition includes articles Maud Gonne MacBride and Mary MacSwiney.
A Sinn Féin poster advocating for the candidacy of Arthur Griffith in the general election of 1918. The text reads ‘Put Him In To Get Him Out / vote for Griffith / the man in jail for Ireland’.
A handbill with the text of Reginald Dunn’s final statement at his trial for the murder of Sir Henry Hughes Wilson. He was subsequently found guilty along with Joseph O’Sullivan and both were executed. The text was ‘Reprinted from the Irish Independent, Friday, July 21, 1922’. The text reads ‘We came back from France to find that self-determination had been given to some nations we had never heard of, but that it had been denied to Ireland. We found on the contrary that our country was being divided into two countries ... and that under that [Belfast] government outrages were being perpetrated that are a disgrace to civilisation …’.
An anti-Treaty republican handbill. The text reads ‘Mr. [William T.] Cosgrave stated on Sunday in Dublin, that the Republican Hunger-strikers are in jail because life and property were not safe while they were at large. … During the past six months, sixteen Free State Soldiers have been convicted in the criminal courts for robbery under arms and murder. .. Not even one Republican soldier has been charged with any of these offences. Who then are the robbers?’.
A clipping of a report on various Sinn Féin meetings and demonstrations in the country. Reference is made to speeches made by Darrel Figgis and George Noble Plunkett. The report was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (20 September 1917).
A manifesto issued by Sinn Féin during the general election for the Fourth Dáil (27 August 1923). The first line of the text reads ‘The Sinn Féin candidates in this Election stand as they have stood in every election since 1917, for the unity and untrammelled independence of Ireland. Like Padraig Pearse they know but one definition of freedom ...’.
A postcard print captioned ‘The Sinn Fein Revolt in Dublin. the First and Only copy of “The Irish War News” issued by the Sinn Feiners’. ‘Irish War News’ was published by the republicans occupying the General Post Office in Dublin during the 1916 Rising.
A republican flier titled ‘Sinn Féin – the fruitful principle’. The text includes from Éamon de Valera’s ‘interview with Mr. W.H. Brayden of the Associated Press of America, July 20th, 1923’
A clipping of an image from the ‘Sunday Herald’ (7 May 1916) purporting to show a ‘Dublin street battle actually in progress’ during the Rising. The caption also suggests that the image is ‘the only snapshot yet published of the fighting in Dublin’.