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A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘Irish history’. The content of the volume is varied and includes newspaper clippings, photographs, printed fliers, and original ephemera relating primarily to the Irish Revolution. The volume pages are not paginated. The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following:
• Letters from Piaras Béaslaí and Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’).
• Clippings relating to the 1916 Rising and War of Independence.
• The funeral of Thomas Ashe.
• Photographic print of the visit of King Edward VII to the Phoenix Park racecourse, Dublin (April 1904).
• Michael Davitt.
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
• Erskine Childers.
• Patrick Holohan.
• Archbishop John D’Alton.
• The Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
• Numerous original fliers, leaflets and handbills relating to the War of Independence and later the anti-Treaty interest during the Civil War.
• A flier titled ‘Funeral Procession of the “Freeman’s Journal”’ (1924).
• Numerous republican street ballad fliers and leaflets.
• Publicity material and original printed ephemera relating to Thomas Ashe.
• An original United Irish League national convention meeting ticket signed by Joseph Devlin (23 April 1912).
• A flier for a patriotic concert to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Robert Emmet, held in the Rotunda Rooms in Dublin (4 March 1915).
• Dublin by-election flier (1915).
• Signed Constance Markievicz postcard print (1918).
• The funeral of Hermann Görtz (May 1947).
• Obituaries for Tomás S. Cuffe (1949).
• Clippings towards the end of the volume relate to later commemorations (and obituary notices) for prominent Irish nationalists.
• Photographs placed at the end of the volume show several actors in traditional Gaelic clothing for a theatrical performance (most likely a Saint Patrick pageant).

A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘Irish history’. The content of the volume is varied and includes newspaper clippings, photographs, printed fliers, and original ephemera relating primarily to the Irish Revolution. The volume is not paginated. The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following:
• The anti-conscription campaign (1918).
• Nationalist and republican fliers and later anti-Treaty publicity material.
• Election filers and ephemera (1919-1922).
• Election flier titled ‘Put Him In To Get Him Out / vote for Griffith: the man in jail for Ireland’ (1918).
• A certificate of membership of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Dublin (1859).
• Original newspaper clippings relating to the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence.
• Sinn Féin bulletins (1924).
• South Armagh By-Election Handbill, 1918.
• Fianna Fáil election material.
• Newspaper clippings relating to Ireland’s policy of neutrality during the Second World War.
• Photographic print of Tom Kettle.
• ‘Comóradh i n-onóir Mhichíl Ui Chléirigh ... 25ú lá de mhí Meithimh, 1944’ (Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1944) with an enclosed invitation to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
• Original newspaper clippings re the Plan of Campaign (1886).
• Copy photographic prints of portraits of various Irish nationalist leaders including Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Daniel O’Connell, William O’Brien, and Michael Davitt.
• Copy photographic print of John O’Leary.
• Photographic print of the exterior of St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, Dublin.
• Photographs of the destruction following the 1916 Rising.
• Membership certificate for the Wolfe Tone and Ninety-Eight Memorial Association (1898).
• Newspaper clippings relating to the 1922 general election.
• A printed flier (in Irish) from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (1944).
• A letter from Eamon Donnelly to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (22 Dec. 1944). For biographical information on Donnelly see https://www.newry.ie/history/the-story-of-eamon-donnelly

A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘Irish history’. The content of the volume is extremely varied and includes newspaper clippings, photographs, printed fliers, and original ephemera relating primarily to the Irish Revolution. The volume is not paginated. The volume includes the following:
• Photographic prints of paintings of various Irish nationalists, writers, and public figures such as Patrick Sarsfield, Luke Wadding, Edmund Ignatius Rice, Daniel O’Connell, James Stephens, Lord Charlemont, Robert Emmet, William Smith O’Brien, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Isaac Butt, Peadar Ó Laoghaire, Arthur Griffith, and James Connolly.
• Original postcard prints of many of the 1916 Rising leaders.
• Memorial cards for Terence MacSwiney and Cathal Brugha.
• Photographic prints of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral.
• Photographic print of the deceased Thomas Ashe.
• Postcard print titled ‘Dr Kathleen Lynn and the ‘Republican Triplets’
• Irish Volunteer photographs.
• Original photographs relating to the War of Independence, released prisoners, invitation cards and ephemera re the first Dáil meeting in January 1919.
• Numerous photographic prints of the commemoration on O’Connell Street of the 1916 Rising anniversary in 1941 (the prints were published in the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’),
• A print titled ‘British Army Leaves the Curragh Camp, County Kildare, 1922’.
• Postcard print titled ‘Enniscorthy leaders of the Rising’.
• Images of Thomas Ashe’s funeral.
• Photographic print of National Amy troops at Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin, 1922.
• Original Constance Markievicz material.
• An image captioned ‘Freemasons’ Hall, Dublin, 1922’.
• Original Frank Fahy prisoner material.
• Postcard prints of the Catholic Emancipation centennial celebrations on Watling Street Bridge, Dublin, 1929.
• An hand drawn illustration of ‘Tintown’ at the Curragh Camp, County Kildare, 1923.
• Republic of Ireland Bond Certificate, 1920.
• Thomas MacDonagh images.
• Terence MacSwiney material.
• An image of Noel Lemass in the Mansion House, Dublin, 1915.
• Material relating to James Montgomery (Press Censor).
• A Charles Stewart Parnell Christmas card, 1880,
• A postcard image of the Cenotaph, Leinster House, Dublin.
• Original photographs of Éamon de Valera.
• A manuscript poem in Irish titled ‘To the Taoiseach after the Storm’ by Pádraig De Brún.
• Several images of the funeral of Michael Collins, Dublin, 1922.
• Political postcard cartoons relating to Irish Revolution.
• Images of Molly Childers and Seán T. O’Kelly.

A large bound volume containing photographic prints mainly of individuals and events associated with the Irish Revolution. The images were probably compiled for publication in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The volume is not paginated. The volume includes the following image content:
• A Home Rule demonstration on Sackville (O’Connell) Street in Dublin.
• Photographs of the 1916 Rising leaders including Tom Clarke, Patrick Pearse, William Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Éamon de Valera, and Con Colbert.
• Prints of John Redmond, Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Eoin MacNeill, Constance Markievicz, Terence MacSwiney, Erskine Childers, Kevin O’Higgins, Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., Margaret Pearse, Arthur Griffith, Kevin Barry, Thomas Whelan, Eoin O’Duffy, Seán T. O’Kelly, Dan Breen, Thomas Kelly, Douglas Hyde, Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM, William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne, Delia Murphy Kiernan, Archbishop William Walsh, James Ryan, William T. Cosgrave, and Timothy Healy.
• Photographs of Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliaries.
• Images of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
• Press photographs showing events during the War of Independence.
• Images of Fianna Éireann groups.
• A photograph of the interior of the General Post Office from ‘The Irish Builder’ (25 March 1916).
• Images of the aftermath of the 1916 Rising in Dublin.
• A postcard reproduction of a portrait of Constance Markievicz by the Polish artist Bolesław Szańkowski (1901).
• Images of the destruction in Dublin at the outset of the Civil War.
• Several republican funerals.
• An image of Avondale House in County Wicklow.
• Released republican prisoners (1917).
• Postcard images of the burning of Cork during the War of Independence (1920).
• Images of National (Free State) Army soldiers during the Civil War.
• An image of army veterans at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin (c.1890).
• Photographs of the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin (1932).

The file comprises the following article clippings:
‘Pearse saw Ireland with idealism, and detachment’, 'Irish Press', 10 Nov. 1954. Another clipping from the same edition of the paper includes articles by Francis MacManus, Pádraig de Brún, and Lennox Robinson.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Emmet’s spirit over Rathfarnham’, 'Irish Press', 13 Nov. 1954.
Desmond Ryan, ‘A moment with Pearse’, 'Irish Press', 11 Nov. 1954. Includes a photograph Senator Margaret Mary Pearse, ‘the only surviving member of the family’.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Pearse the orator’, 'Irish Press', 12 Nov. 1954.

Photographic prints relating to the Irish Revolution compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Many of the prints were used for commemorative features on the 1916 Rising in the 'Annuals' of 1942 and 1966 and in editions from 1967 to 1971 covering events in the War of Independence. The file includes several original prints along with copies sourced from the National Library of Ireland, the National Museum of Ireland, the 'Irish Press', the 'Irish Independent', and from other repositories and photographic studios. The file includes the following images:

• Fianna Éireann physical culture class in 1913.
• Constance Markievicz with Fianna Éireann in 1915.
• Membership card of Michael O’Hanrahan of An Cumann Cosanta. 20 Dec. 1915.
• Postcard prints of the destruction in Dublin in the aftermath of the Rising. (The prints are from the Valentine’s series and Keogh Brothers). Includes: ‘Hotel Metropole and Post Office, Dublin. Before and After’.
• Original prints showing Gaelic football and hurling teams at St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, Dublin. The photograph is credited to T.F. Geoghegan, Dublin.
• Holes in a window in the Church Street Capuchin Friary believed to have been left by bullets fired during the 1916 Rising.
• Mount Street Bridge, Clanwilliam Place, after the 1916 Rising.
• Éamon de Valera under guard at Richmond Barracks in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising.
• The remains of the barricade at Church Street in the aftermath of the Rising.
• General Sir John Maxwell and other British officers during the 1916 Rising.
• Studio photograph of James Connolly.
• Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916.
• Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, by Cathal MacDubhghaill.
• The washroom, Frongoch Camp. The drawing is signed: ‘P.J. Murray (wounded prisoner), Frongoch, Nov. 1916’.
• A large group of Irish prisoners detained in Stafford Jail in England following the 1916 Rising.
• Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. at Lough Derg.
• Black and white photographic negatives including images of Sackville Street and Eden Quay after the 1916 Rising, artwork showing Patrick Pearse in the General Post Office, and studio photographs of Arthur Griffith, Joseph Plunkett and Thomas MacDonagh.
• The return of released IRA prisoners to Dublin in 1917. Includes a print showing a large crowd outside Westland Row Station awaiting the return of released republicans. Other prints show Harry Boland being feted upon his arrival in the city.
• Funeral procession of Thomas Ashe through the streets of Dublin. 1 Oct. 1917.
• Count George Noble Plunkett at a proclaimed republican meeting in Beresford Place, Dublin, in 1917.
• Put him in to get him out. Election poster for Joseph McGuinness (1875-1922) in the South Longford by-election in 1917. A copy of the original poster is extant at CA IR-1-7-2-6. https://catholicarchives.ie/index.php/put-him-in-to-get-him-out-vote-for-mcguinness-the-man-in-jail-for-ireland
• Éamon de Valera on the steps of Ennis Courthouse during the East Clare by-election in July 1917.
• A Felon of Our Land. An election poster encouraging the public to vote for W.T. Cosgrave as Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny city in the parliamentary by-election in August 1917.
• Constance Markievicz marching in a rally in support of Sinn Féin at the Kilkenny by-election in 1917.
• George Noble Plunkett’s Convention in the Mansion House, Dublin, in 1917.
• Arthur Griffith and Éamon de Valera leaving the Mansion House, Dublin, after the Anti-Conscription Conference in 1918.
• Copy of a document titled ‘Instructions for the Guidance of Courts Martial where a sentence of death has been passed’. The instructions relate to Private J. Dowling, Connaught Rangers, who was accused of ‘voluntarily aiding the enemy’. The document is dated 9 July 1918.
• Photographic print of a painted portrait of Austin Stack (1879-1929).
• Irish envoys in Paris with American representatives in 1919. The print shows George Gavan Duffy, Seán T. O’Kelly and Frank P. Walsh, an American lawyer (1864-1939).
• Seán T. O’Kelly calling at the office of Georges Clémenceau to deliver the Irish claim to representation at the Paris peace conference in 1919.
• Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953).
• Peadar Clancy (1888-1920).
• Tomás Mac Curtain, Terence MacSwiney and other republicans in Cork.
• Liam Mellows (1892-1922) and James O’Mara (1873-1948).
• Members of Cork Corporation who voted for the election of Tomás MacCurtain as Lord Major of Cork on 31 Jan. 1920.
• Michael Collins. The caption on the reverse affirms that Collins was addressing a meeting to promote the National Loan at St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin, in 1920.
• Photographic print of a drawing which is annotated: ‘a contemporary cartoon by a Breton artist’. The drawing possibly relates to the death of Terence MacSwiney.
• The funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney in London in October 1920. The procession includes Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.
• Terence MacSwiney lying in state in Cork on 31 October 1920.
• Joseph McGuinness (1875-1922) in an Irish Volunteer uniform.
• The first Dáil (An Chéad Dáil) in session in the Mansion House, Dublin, 1919.
• Postcard print of Irish republican prisoners in England. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘Frank McCabe, Peter Healy (dead), Joe McBride, Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh, Liam Pedlar, Secilg [John Joseph O’Kelly], Barney Mellows, Darrell Figgis, Dr McCartain, Fairford [Gloucestershire]’.
• The chapel in Lewes Jail where IRA prisoners were detained.
• Main gate entrance to Wakefield Prison.
• Richard ‘Dick’ McKee, E. Fitzgerald and G. Malone and other republicans in 1920.
• Michael Collins and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. at the wedding of Eliza Clancy and Michael O’Brien, 16 Airfield Road, Dublin (22 Nov. 1920). The print is credited to Keogh Brothers, 124 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
• Mick O’Donnell, Tom Kehoe, Vincent Byrne, Paddy Daly and Jim Slattery, members of Michael Collins’s IRA ‘squad’.
• Scene on Upper Church Street, Dublin, shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest in September 1920.
• Photographic prints of General Michael Collins. The prints are credited to F.E. Burdett, Peak View Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
• General Richard Mulcahy, Kevin O’Higgins, Arthur Griffith and other individuals (including clerics).
• Arthur Griffith, Éamon de Valera, Laurence O’Neill (1864-1943), and Michael Collins probably in Croke Park, Dublin.
• Art Ó Briain (1872-1949), Harry Boland, George Gavan Duffy, and Seán T. O’Kelly in 1921.
• The monument erected for the IRA men who were killed in the Selton Hill ambush in County Leitrim on 11 March 1921.
• Arthur Griffith lying in state in City Hall, Dublin, Aug. 1922.
• Michael Collins at the funeral of Arthur Griffith in Dublin on 16 Aug. 1922.
• Margaret Pearse (1878-1968).
• Fr. Michael O’Flanagan (1876-1942).
• Diarmuid Lynch (1878-1950).
• Photographic print of a painted portrait of General Richard Mulcahy (1886-1971).
• Photographic print of a typescript copy of the last letter Erskine Childers to his wife (20 Nov. 1922).
• Copy photographic prints of Anti-Treaty IRA men occupying the Four Courts in Dublin, June 1922. One of the prints is annotated on the reverse: ‘Capt. Joe McHenry, O/C Four Courts’ Garrison / Féilim McHenry, Templeogue, Dublin 16’.
• Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (d. 11 Jan. 1935) with Free State soldiers inspecting damage near the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin, after the attack on the Four Courts, June 1922. The print appears to be an original.

Three copies of a tribute by Éamon de Valera to E Company of the Irish Volunteers during the Howth Gun-Running in July 1914. The text is dated 6 Mar. 1948.

Photographic prints by James Eccles, Champion Art Studios, Wine Street, Sligo. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes a letter (21 Sept. 1963) from Eccles to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. referring to the possibility of publishing the following prints in 'The Capuchin Annual':

• Moville, County Donegal.
• Fishing fleet tied up Killybegs Harbour, County Donegal.
• Dunmoran Strand, County Sligo.
• Ballysadare (or Ballisodare) Bay, County Sligo.
• White Strand, Lough Swilly, County Donegal.
• Lough Gill, County Sligo.
• Glencar Lake, County Sligo.
• Drumcliffe Church, County Sligo (the burial place of W.B. Yeats).
• Parke’s Castle on the shores of Lough Gill, County Leitrim.
• Mullaghmore Harbour, County Sligo.
• Benbulben, County Sligo.
• River Garavogue, County Sligo.

Copy portraits of James Francis Stuart (1688-1766) and Princess Maria Sobieska (1702-1735) used to illustrate an article by Gerard Morris titled ‘Of a Princess and Four Irishmen’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 51-69. The original paintings are in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Photographic prints submitted by James Lyons, 24 Grenville Villas, Bachelors’ Quay, Cork. Most of the prints are captioned and some bear the date: 16 July 1964. The file includes the following images:

• The tomb of the Mac Finin Dubhs at Kilmackillogue, County Kerry.
• The ruins of Ardea Castle, County Kerry.
• The ruins of the old church at Kilmackillogue, County Kerry.
• Connemara Lakeland, County Galway.
• Farmstead near Ballyvaughan, County Clare.
• Keel Strand, Achill Island.
• The moorland around Westport, County Mayo.
• Dunmanus Bay, County Cork.
• The Goats' Path overlooking Bantry Bay, County Cork.
• Fishing vessels moored at Castletownbere, County Cork.
• Glengarriff as seen from the Bantry Road, County Cork.
• The seashore at Kilcrohane.