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 satirical republican flier celebrating the demise of the pro-Treaty ‘Freeman’s Journal’ newspaper in 1924. The flier promotes a ‘funeral procession’ and notes that the newspaper ceased publication ‘from an acute attack of Clerical Intimidation, Softening of the Back-bone, and other painful disorders’. Reference is made to the former proprietors of the ‘Freeman’s Journal’, Francis Higgins (c.1745-1802), probably better known as the ‘Sham Squire’, and Sir John Gray (1815-1875).
A clipping of an article of a letter by R.J. MacColl criticising Seán Ó Faoláin’s views on the ‘Orange Terror’ publication. The letter was published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (4 April 1948
A clipping of an obituary for the artist and President of the Royal Hibernian Academy Dermod O’Brien. The article notes that he was the grandson of William Smith O’Brien, they Young Irelander. The obituary was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (5 October 1945).
A clipping of a letter from the artist Paul Henry regarding the need to find an appropriate location in Dublin for a gallery to house the paintings from the Hugh Lane bequest. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (4 October 1922).
A letter from Sir Shane Leslie, 18 Knightsbridge Court, Sloane Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFMCap. re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933).
A letter from Germaine Stockley to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. giving particulars of the life of the late sculptor Joseph Higgins. She wrote ‘the great Irish sculptor died in Youghal in [the] beginning of 1925. I saw him a few days before his death. He died of consumption’. She also refers to Higgins’s son-in-law Seamus Murphy.
A clipping of a report (with photographs) on the opening of an exhibition of the work of the sculptor Clare Sheridan in the Dawson Galleries in Dublin. Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. attended the opening. The article is taken from ‘The Standard’ (28 May 1948).
