The file comprises: 9 Aug. 1922 (no. 1); 12 Aug. 1922 (no. 3); 15 Aug. 1922 (no. 5). 2 copies; 22 Aug. 1922 (no. 7). 2 copies; 1 Sept. 1922 (no. 10). 2 copies; 5 Sept. 1922 (no. 12); 16 Sept. 1922 (no edition number). Title page has a drawing ‘With the IRA (somewhere in Ireland)’ by Constance Markievicz; 17 Sept. 1922 (no. 15). 2 copies; 27 Sept. 1922 (no. 19); 28 Sept. 1922 (no. 20). Title page has a drawing ‘Free Staters in Action’; 1 Oct. 1922 (No. 21). Title page has a drawing ‘With the Dublin Brigade, IRA’ by Constance Markievicz; 8 Oct. 1922 (no. 23). 2 copies; 22 Oct. 1922 (No. 30); 27 Oct. 1922 (No. 33). The issue of 8 Oct. 1922 is annotated on the reverse ‘G.K. 544 N.C.R., A.F. M. Philips. It was found in an envelope with a manuscript annotation: ‘Rev. Fr. Sebastian [O’Brien OFM Cap.]’.
The file contains the following editions of this Anti-Treaty newsletter: 12 Aug. 1922 (No. 1)-23 Sept. 1922 (No. 6) 6 Sept. 1922 (No. 8)-4 Nov. 1922 (No. 12) 18 Nov. 1922 (No. 14)-19 Dec. 1922 (No. 19) Multiple copies of some editions of 'The Nation' are extant in the file. With two copies of 'Handbills for Heretics', an undated Anti-Treaty publication which re-used some content from 'The Nation'.
The file comprises the following editions of this weekly republican newspaper: 17 Mar. 1923 (Vol. 1, No. 9)-25 Oct. 1924 (Vol. 2, No. 41). The newspaper was published by the Irish Nation Committee, 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin. The series is incomplete but there are multiple copies of some issues.
An Italian newspaper containing an article by Donal McHales, General Consular and Agent of the Irish Republic, concerning the ‘atrocities’ committed by Belfast Protestants upon Irish Catholics and nationalists. (p. 2).
The article describes a confrontation with the British military during the aeridhacht. It reads ‘during the singing and performances not only were many police present but five aeroplanes appeared and for over an hour circled over the meeting, descending to the closest possible proximity to the crowd and drowning by their din the children’s music, and that flame rockets were dropped from the planes close to the crowd, one of which set light to a thatched roof …’. The article is signed ‘W.F.P.S.’ This is probably William Frederick Paul Stockley, a Sinn Féin politician. The article concludes by declaring that ‘We are not completely emancipated from party politicians and capitalist’ newspapers. And the Irish nation of the future will never be Imperialist’.
