An Anti-Treaty handbill (black typescript on buff coloured paper), urging Free State soldiers to lay down their arms. It reads: ‘Ireland has one enemy, the infamous English enemy. She has tricked you, kindly, simple lads, as she tricked Irishmen all through the ages of war against her. … The Irish Republic is not dead. A hundred thousand armed men are in Ireland to-day ready to give their lives that it may live. You are killing them as the R.I.C. tried to kill you’.
A republican handbill ‘To Caithleen ni Houlihan’, representing Ireland, notifying ‘you that by virtue of the authority vested in me by His Majesty King George V., your son was executed at dawn this morning’. The handbill is signed ‘W.T. Cosgrave’. The handbill is numbered ‘61’.
An Anti-Treaty pamphlet attacking Arthur Griffith sarcastically claiming ‘This is freedom … The Britons in Khaki yesterday raided Republican homes ... The West Britons in green to-day raid Republican homes ...’.
The file comprises the following editions of this weekly socialist and nationalist newspaper founded and edited by James Connolly: 6 Nov. 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 24) 18 Dec. 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 30) 1 Apr. 1916 (Vol. 1, No. 45) From 1915, Connolly printed 'The Workers’ Republic' newspaper on a Double Crown Wharfdale printer from offices at Liberty Hall.
'The Workers’ Republic, the official organ of the Communist Party of Ireland’, 19 May 1923 (New Series, No. 86). The newspaper carries a reprint of part of James Connolly’s pamphlet 'Erin’s Hope'.
An Anti-Treaty pamphlet by the Irish Republican Army asking ‘on what authority did Michael Collins call off the Belfast boycott’. It also demands to know why Collins associated ‘with the enemy General Macready and, reinforced by English guns manned by English gunners, lay siege to and destroy the Four Courts’.
The file comprises the following editions of this journal published by the North Eastern Boundary Bureau: No. 6. (2 copies) No. 21 (2 copies) No. 9 No. 25 No. 10 No. 28 No. 12 No. 30 (2 copies) No. 13 (3 copies) No. 31 (3 copies) No. 14 (2 copies) No. 32 (3 copies) No. 16 (2 copies) No. 17 No. 18 No. 19 (3 copies) The North-Eastern Boundary Bureau was set up on the authority of a Minute of the Provisional Government dated 2 Oct. 1922, authorising Kevin O’Shiel, then Assistant Law Adviser, to take all necessary steps for the collection and compilation of data in connection with the Boundary Commission. O’Shiel remained Director of the Bureau until his appointment to the Irish Land Commission in Nov. 1923. From Nov. 1922 until the British Government suggested a conference on the Northern question, a 'Weekly Bulletin' was issued to the press, which dealt with current controversy on the boundary or partition questions. It analyzed the facts or financial statements which might be relevant to this issue. In this and all other publications which were issued from the Bureau, all acrimonious arguments were omitted. The literature was specially designed to remove the Northern question as far as possible from the realm of heated controversy and make it a matter of reasoned political argument. The 'Bulletin' was greatly appreciated by the press. The material it contained was often used, as was intended, in an unacknowledged form, while some papers frequently published the 'Bulletin' in full. Copies of the 'Bulletin', in addition to being sent to the press, were also sent to Consuls, agents in the northern counties, and other interested parties. The 'Bulletin' was discontinued when the Boundary Commission became a matter of public controversy. The file also includes ‘North East Ulster, The Truth about the Boundary Commission. The Treaty’. A cover letter indicates that this statement was sent to an editor by the North Eastern Boundary Bureau on 7 Nov. 1922
'The United Irishman' was an Irish nationalist newspaper co-founded by Arthur Griffith and William Rooney. The first publication was issued on 4 Mar. 1899 it ran until 1906. It was sub-titled ‘A National Weekly Review’. The file contains the issue of 23 Apr. 1904 (Vol. 11 No. 269). This edition published copy correspondence from the Capuchin Friary in Cork relating to the ‘Vindication of Monsignor Persico’ (pp 2-3).
