Photographic prints (stills) from the 1936 film 'The Dawn'. This was the first full-length Irish feature film with sound. 'The Dawn' was made by Hibernia Films and was produced and directed by Tom Cooper. Scenes from the film were shot in and around Killarney, County Kerry. The film tells a tale of romance and tragedy set against the backdrop of the War of Independence. The cast included 250 amateur actors drawn from the locality. Some of the cast were IRA veterans of the War of Independence. Several of the prints show reconstructions of an ambush on British forces.
The front cover of programme for a commemorative concert honouring Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellows, Richard Barrett and Joe McKelvey who were executed during the Civil War.
A reprint of an article from the ‘Daily Express’ extolling the ‘noble work done by the Orange Committee’. Issued from the Committee’s Offices in Dublin by Athol Johnson Dudgeon, honorary secretary.
A leaflet listing Irish republicans who died in English jails. The final line reads ‘What are you going to do?’ Manuscript annotation reads ‘9th March 1919’.
The first number of 'The Father Mathew Record' was published in January 1908. It was founded and edited by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957). 1967 marked the last year of the publication under the title of 'The Father Mathew Record'. From 1968 until it ceased publication in 1973, the publication was known as 'Eirigh'. Very little content has survived for the publication for the years prior to the assumption of the editorship of 'Eirigh' by Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1936-2010) in the late 1960s.
A flier with the text of a republican poem titled ‘The Flag on the G.P.O. / Easter 1917’ by J.J. Walsh. The first two lines of the verse read ‘Why gather the crowd in O'Connell Street? / Why throng all the people there? …’.
