A satirical republican flier on the demise of the pro-Treaty 'Freeman's Journal' newspaper. The flier promotes a 'funeral procession' for the paper and notes that it ceased publication 'from an acute attack of Clerical Intimidation, Softening of the Back-bone, and other painful disorders'. Reference is made to the former proprietors of the newspaper, Francis Higgins (c.1745–1802), probably better known as the 'Sham Squire', and Sir John Gray (1815-1875).
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 in the republican interest written under the pseudonym of ‘Columban na Banban’. The pamphlet urges priests to adhere to the Republic and to defy their Bishop’s commands: ‘The Republican Police Force is not disbanded. … Mulcahy will surrender as surely as Macready surrendered. Doubtless when all arguments are used the Bishops will remain your great stumbling block’. (p. 11).
A republican cartoon by Constance Markievicz published during the Civil War affirming that Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins are ‘marching heads up into the Empire over the bodies of their murdered Comrades’.
A poem (to the air of ‘The Boys of Wexford’) advocating support for George Noble Plunkett in the forthcoming by-election. It reads: ‘Roscommon’s chance has come at last, to strike a manly blow, For Eire’s right in freedom’s fight, and thraldom overthrow’. In 1917, in Sinn Féin’s first parliamentary victory, Plunkett won the seat of Roscommon North in a by-election.
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’.
A pamphlet by John X. Regan referring to the need for American support for a solution to the Irish Question. Published in Boston (Mass.) by the Advisory Committee, Irish Victory Fund. Cover title. At head of title: ‘for America’s honor’, No. 1
A pamphlet in the republican interest referring to the economic aspects of Ireland’s struggle for independence. Published by the ‘Irish Financial Relations Committee’, Mansion House, Dublin.