The file includes the following editions from mainly national newspapers reporting on the Rising and on subsequent events: 'Cork Examiner', 24 June 1916 'Irish Weekly Independent', 29 Apr. & 6 May & 13 May 1916 'Weekly Irish Times', 29 Apr. & 13 May 1916 'Irish Times', 18 Apr.-1 May 1916; 12 May 1916 (p. 5 only) 'Saturday Herald', 27 May 1916 'Cork Examiner', 6 May 1916 'Freeman’s Journal', 11-13 May 1916; 2 June 1916 (13 May 1916 has pp 5-8 only). 'Irish Independent', 15 May 1916
The file comprises an incomplete of run of this weekly publication published in Dublin. With numerous single sheets or clippings from selected editions.
A series of republican cartoons by Constance Markievicz published during the Civil War attacking various prominent Free State figures including Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. Two of the cartoons are titled ‘Midnight Assassins’ and refer to supposed threats to the lives of Ėamon de Valera and Erskine Childers. Another affirms that Griffith and Collins are ‘marching heads up into the Empire over the bodies of their murdered Comrades’ whilst another suggests a comparison between James Craig and Michael Collins in terms of their treatment of Republicans. The cartoons may have been published in the Anti-Treaty publication 'The Fenian' (See IE CA IR-1-8-3-5).
A pamphlet in the republican interest by Ėamon de Valera concerning the Treaty. Published in Dublin by the Irish Nation Committee and printed by Kirkwood & Co., Glasgow. Titled ‘No. 1’ in a series. Who abandoned the Republic? / By a Western Priest is ‘No. 3’ in this series (CA/IR/1/7/3/23).
'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 47, 24 August 1922. This edition was published two days after the death of Michael Collins, the National Army's Commander-in-Chief, at Béal na Bláth in County Cork. Its editorial on Collins commences: 'Yesterday the Nation was shocked by the news of Michael Collins death … now his boundless energy and inexhaustible resource are no more ...' This is one of the last issues of 'War News' produced by Erskine Childers in West Cork before THE encircling National Army made anti-Treaty positions untenable, and he had to move the printing press into a vacant cottage at Ballyvourney. Helping him to print his news sheets were Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Sean Hendrick (all famous writers), and R. Longford who later established the Lee Press in Cork city.
The file comprises the following: an undated first edition of 'Freedom' containing an ‘extract from a letter from Rory O’Connor’ regarding the attack on the Free Courts; 17 Sept. 1922 (no edition number) with a portrait of Lawrence Ginnell by Constance Markievicz; 24 Sept. 1922 (No. 7) with a drawing of the ‘the branded arm of James O’Reilly sketched from life’ by Constance Markievicz; 22 Oct. 1922 (No. 11), 3 copies; Dec. 1922.
