Postcard Print of Four Courts' Attack
- IE CA IR-1/5/5/5
- Stuk
- 1922
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Blank postcard print titled 'Military Operations, Dublin, June-July 1922 / Shell Exploding on Four Courts'. The image is credited to Hogan, Dublin.
Postcard Print of Four Courts' Attack
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Blank postcard print titled 'Military Operations, Dublin, June-July 1922 / Shell Exploding on Four Courts'. The image is credited to Hogan, Dublin.
Letter to Lena May Murphy from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.
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Letter to Lena May Murphy, Cork, from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (23 Nov. 1918). It reads: ‘I must thank you very sincerely for your great kindness to my dead father in his last illness. All at home are never done telling everybody of you and your wonderful goodness’. This letter was sent by [Maire] Murphy, 35 Mercier Park, Curragh Road, Cork, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (13 Nov. 1991), explaining that Lena May Murphy was her late aunt. With a copy photograph of Lena May Murphy, and notes by Fr. Nessan re Lena May who worked as a nurse caring for elderly patients.
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Text of a poem or song signed by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and dated ‘9/4/4/20’. Fr. Dominic occasionally used the republican calendar to denote his years: 1920 was the fourth year of Republic founded in 1916. With a phonetic aid to pronunciation.
Pictorial Albums, Ephemera and Artefacts of the 1916 Rising
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The series contains souvenir booklets and miscellaneous ephemera and artefacts relating to the 1916 Rising. Most of the booklets contain photographic postcards depicting various figures, events and artefacts associated with the Easter Rising and its aftermath.
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An Anti-Treaty handbill imploring Free State soldiers to ‘come out from the Free State Army at first opportunity, and renew your allegiance to the Old Love’.
Memorial card for Pádraig MacPiarais and William MacPiarais
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Memorial card for Pádraig MacPiarais and William MacPiarais
First Anniversary Memorial Cards for 1916 Rising Leaders
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First anniversary cards for the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising including one card for Joseph Mary Plunkett, William Pearse, Michael O’Hanrahan, Edward Daly, another for Major John MacBride, and one for ‘for the repose of the souls of the following Irishmen who were executed by English Law’. (Hand coloured, tricolour and green flag over crossed pikes. Interlacing ribbon reads: ‘Our Prayers Daily’.
First Anniversary Card for Major John MacBride
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First anniversary card for Major John MacBride
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Memorial card for Terence MacSwiney, ‘Lord Mayor of Cork, Died for Ireland in Brixton Prison, England on October 25th, 1920'
Memorial Cards for Peadar Healy (Peadar Ó hÉaluighthe)
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Two memorial cards for Peadar Healy (Peadar Ó hÉaluighthe), from Phibsboro in Dublin, who died on 23 April 1919. Healy was a captain in the 1st Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and was a participant in the 1916 Rising. One of the cards (with Irish text) has a photographic print. It was produced by Brian na Banban, a pseudonym used by Brian O’Higgins (1882-1963), a founding member of the Volunteers and himself a 1916 veteran.