The fliers claim the support of Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Church Street, calling them ‘distinguished representatives of the Order which in dark and evil days held aloft the lamp of learning in Ireland’. Father Lawrence wrote ‘I am glad Mr. John Farren is seeking election as a member of the Dublin Corporation. …’. The fliers were printed by Mitchell & Co., 29 Capel Street, Dublin, and published by the candidate.
An Anti-Treaty propaganda leaflet of a facsimile letter from a Irish Free State Captain, Military Barracks, Dundalk, to Colonel O’Higgins, Dublin Command, re accounts for whiskey which was ‘purchased on the order of General Hogan, and supplied to the firing squads who carried out the executions here’.
A soft-bound volume containing a complete run of this weekly bi-lingual newspaper published to advance literacy in the Irish language. The file contains a complete run of issues from 8 Jan. 1898 (Vol. 1. No. 1)-31 Dec. 1898 (Vol. 2. No. 52). The editor of the newspaper was Eoin MacNeill. An advertisement published in the newspaper noted that complete volumes of 'Fáinne an Lae', bound in cloth (such as this) were available from the publisher: Bernard Doyle, 9 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, for 6s 6d.
First anniversary cards for the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising including one card for Joseph Mary Plunkett, William Pearse, Michael O’Hanrahan, Edward Daly, another for Major John MacBride, and one for ‘for the repose of the souls of the following Irishmen who were executed by English Law’. (Hand coloured, tricolour and green flag over crossed pikes. Interlacing ribbon reads: ‘Our Prayers Daily’.
The file comprises the following: an undated first edition of 'Freedom' containing an ‘extract from a letter from Rory O’Connor’ regarding the attack on the Free Courts; 17 Sept. 1922 (no edition number) with a portrait of Lawrence Ginnell by Constance Markievicz; 24 Sept. 1922 (No. 7) with a drawing of the ‘the branded arm of James O’Reilly sketched from life’ by Constance Markievicz; 22 Oct. 1922 (No. 11), 3 copies; Dec. 1922.
Handbill-style copies of the 'Freeman’s Journal' and 'Evening Telegraph', 1-10 Apr. 1922. Following an attack by armed Irregular republicans, these pro-Treaty publications appeared as cyclostyled typescript handbills which were pasted on walls all over Dublin city. The papers mainly contained editorials referring to the attack on the newspaper premises, expressed defiance of those responsible for the assault, and assertions that the papers would appear in some form or other. Reference was also made to the need to fight ‘tyranny in whatever garb it appears’. It was reported that republicans later went about the city tearing down the editorials wherever they were posted.
A handbill, in the republican interest, underlining the emphasis in the articles of the Irish Free State constitution which were declared vital and unalterable by Kevin O’Higgins – ‘on the authority of the King’. Published in Dublin .
A pamphlet dedicated by the author to Casement’s ‘dearest surviving friend on earth his loving sister Mrs Newman’. The text was written by John Clarke (1868-1934), a County Antrim-born nationalist and journalist who wrote numerous articles on Gaelic cultural revivalist subjects, frequently using the penname ‘Benmore’.
