A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Liberty Hall, Dublin, the rebel headquarters, after the storming’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Henry Street, Dublin, after the shelling of the rebels’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A clipping of images captioned ‘Incidents of the Revolt / Snapshots of the Leaders’ comprising photographs of Patrick Pearse, Constance Markievicz, and John MacBride following the suppression of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Daily News’ (10 May 1916).
A group outside the Mansion House in Dublin. The group are (left-right) Seán Mac Eoin, Seán Moylan, Eoin O’Duffy, Liam Lynch, Gearóid O’Sullivan, and Liam Mellows.
A card advertising an exhibition of the artwork of Fr. Jack Hanlon in the Galerie du theatre de poche in Brussels in Belgium. A manuscript annotation on the card reads ‘best wishes, Jack’.
A flier promoting a production of John Millington Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin in July 1953. The production was staged by Cyril Cusack (1910-1993) with the actor himself in the title role (as Christy Mahon). The cast also included the Belfast-born actress Siobhán McKenna (as Pegeen Mike), with appearances by Jack McGowran, Walter Macken, and Cyril Cusack’s wife Maureen.
A flier for a performance of ‘Easter 1916’, a play by Montagu Slater, an English poet and playwright. The play covers the period from the 1913 lock-out to the 1916 Rising by chronicling the life of James Connolly, described as ‘Ireland’s first Socialist martyr’. A performance of Slater’s play was produced by the Left Theatre Company at the La Scala Theatre in Dublin in April 1936.
A clipping of an article reporting on a window designed by Evie Hone in Kilmilkin Church, Maam, in County Galway commemorating the surgeon John Francis O’Malley. The article was published in the ‘Connacht Tribune’ (2 June 1951).