A clipping of an image of a crowd at a recruitment meeting in Macroom in County Cork. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (8 October 1915). (Volume page 202).
A clipping of a report of a speech by Nora Connolly, the daughter of James Connolly, in St. Andrew’s Hall in Glasgow. The article is taken from ‘Forward’, a Scottish socialist newspaper (18 October 1919).
A clipping of an article by Donal B. O’Connell appealing for funds to save Derrynane, the former home of Daniel O’Connell in County Kerry. The article was published in ‘The Kerryman’ (25 May 1946).
An image of Colm and Máire Gavan Duffy, the children of George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951), an Irish politician, jurist, and solicitor, and one of the signatories to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. As the caption notes, the two are ‘photographed in Paris [in] 1920 during their father’s term of office as representative of the Irish Republic’.
An invitation card for the first meeting of Dáil Éireann held on 7 January 1919. This inaugural meeting was held in private with only Sinn Féin members invited. The principal business conducted at this meeting was the election of a committee tasked with the drawing up of key documents to be discussed at the first sitting of the Dáil proper which was held on 21 January in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin.