Handbill-style copies of the 'Freeman’s Journal' and 'Evening Telegraph', 1-10 Apr. 1922. Following an attack by armed Irregular republicans, these pro-Treaty publications appeared as cyclostyled typescript handbills which were pasted on walls all over Dublin city. The papers mainly contained editorials referring to the attack on the newspaper premises, expressed defiance of those responsible for the assault, and assertions that the papers would appear in some form or other. Reference was also made to the need to fight ‘tyranny in whatever garb it appears’. It was reported that republicans later went about the city tearing down the editorials wherever they were posted.
The file contains the issue: 1 Nov. 1920 (vol. CLIII) referring to the prominent role of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. at the funeral of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork.
A clipping of an article reporting on the award of the Freedom of Limerick to the painter Seán Keating and former district justice Joseph M. Flood. The article also refers to the Municipal Gallery of Irish Art in Limerick. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (23 March 1948).
A clipping of an article titled ‘Freedom of Dublin offered to Mr. Shaw’, ‘Irish Press’ (5 February 1946). Refers to a Dublin Corporation vote to offer the honour to George Bernard Shaw.
The title page of anti-Treaty publication ‘Freedom’ (24 September 1922). The cover has a satirical portrait of General Richard Mulcahy, Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Government’s forces. The cartoon’s title reads ‘When Mulcahy wore the collar of gold which he won from the proud invader’. (Volume page 47).
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.
A copy of 'Freedom' (17 Sept. 1922). The cover has a portrait of Lawrence Ginnell (1852-1923), a veteran Irish nationalist and opponent of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. The sketched-portrait was drawn by Constance Markievicz.
