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Bound volume containing the complete run of 'An Barr Buadh' (‘The Trumpet of Freedom’), from 16 Mar. 1912 (Vol. 1, No. 1)-25 May 1912 (Vol. 1, No. 11). In March 1912, Pádraig Pearse founded this weekly Irish language political journal. Its purpose was to ‘advocate the political independence of Ireland’. With only a limited circulation, 'An Barr Buadh' only ran to eleven issues and had only four pages. Regular contributors included Pearse himself, Brian O’Higgins, Éamonn Ceannt, Thomas Mac Donnell, Desmond Ryan, Cathal Brugha, The O’Rahilly and Peadar Kearney. The articles focused almost exclusively on political issues and paper rarely dealt with social or economic matters. The first page of the bound volume is annotated with the manuscript signature of Tomás de Roíste, the noted Gaelic scholar.

The file comprises the following editions of this Anti-Treaty republican publication: 20 Nov. 1923 (No. 2); 22 Nov. 1823 (No. 3); 11 Dec. 1923 (No. 10). Issue No. 3 is ink-stamped: ‘O’Dwyer, tobacconist and newsagent, 30 Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork’.

The file comprises the following editions of this weekly republican newspaper:
6 Nov. 1925 (Vol. 1, No. 21)-25 Dec. 1925 (Vol. 1, No. 28);
1 Jan. 1926 (Vol. 2, No. 1)-2 Apr. 1926 (Vol. 2, No. 14);
23 Mar. 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 8);
20 Apr. 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 12)-4 May 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 14);
18 May 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 16);
8 June 1935 (new series, Vol. X, No. 19).
Multiple copies of some editions are extant.

'An Stoc' was edited by Tomás Ó Máille (1880-1938). Ó Máille was born in Connemara and was educated in University College Manchester, in Freiburg and later in Berlin. He became professor of Irish studies at University College Galway. Among his published works were 'The language of the annals of Ulster' (1910); 'An Gaoth Aniar' (1920); 'MacDatho' (1927); 'Medb Chriachna' (1934); 'Diarmad Dann' (1936); 'An Béal Beo' (1936). He edited 'An Stoc', which contained Irish poetry, folklore extracts and other forms of cultural revivalist and nationalist literature. 'An Stoc' was published in Galway by Coláiste na h-Iolsgoile. The file contains the following issues:
Dec. 1917. Vol. 1, No. 1
Jan. 1918. Vol. 1, No. 2
Feb.-Mar. 1918. Vol. 1, No. 3
Apr.-May 1918. Vol. 1, No. 4.
Apr.-May 1920. Vol. 2, No. 10.

This Anti-Treaty publicity newssheet was distributed to journalists and republican supporters. Written from the republican perspective, it provides a daily account of the conduct of the Civil War and appeared in much the same format and was written in the same journalistic style as the earlier 'Irish Bulletin' (IE CA IR-1-8-2-1-5). It was produced by the republican publicity department and was probably edited by Erskine Childers until his arrest (November 1922), and later by Frank Gallagher and others. The file comprises the following issues: 27 Sept. 1922 (No. 1)-8 Aug. 1923 (No. 267). The series is incomplete but there are multiple copies of some issues.

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.