A flier promoting a production of John Millington Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin in July 1953. The production was staged by Cyril Cusack (1910-1993) with the actor himself in the title role (as Christy Mahon). The cast also included the Belfast-born actress Siobhán McKenna (as Pegeen Mike), with appearances by Jack McGowran, Walter Macken, and Cyril Cusack’s wife Maureen.
A card advertising an exhibition of the artwork of Fr. Jack Hanlon in the Galerie du theatre de poche in Brussels in Belgium. A manuscript annotation on the card reads ‘best wishes, Jack’.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Liberty Hall, Dublin, the rebel headquarters, after the storming’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Henry Street, Dublin, after the shelling of the rebels’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A clipping of a photograph of Cathal O’Shannon and Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC at the Mater Hospital in Dublin where the former was receiving treatment. The clipping was used to illustrate an article on O’Shannon’s personal recollections of the 1916 Rising published in the ‘Empire News’ (4 September 1953).
A group outside the Mansion House in Dublin. The group are (left-right) Seán Mac Eoin, Seán Moylan, Eoin O’Duffy, Liam Lynch, Gearóid O’Sullivan, and Liam Mellows.
A permit from the Dublin Metropolitan Police allowing Edmond Donelan, Rose Dale, Vergemount, Clonskea, to pass through the streets of Dublin (2 May 1916). The page also has a used Dublin tramway ticket dated 24 April 1916.
A clipping of a cartoon by the Dutch caricaturist Louis Raemaekers on the 1916 Rising. The cartoon was published in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916) with the title ‘Raemaekers on the ‘Sinn Féin Riots’. The original caption reads ‘A powerful cartoon, specially drawn for the ‘Weekly Dispatch’, by the famous Dutch artist Raemaekers. Britannia, with loyal Ireland, is seen on guard against the enemy, while the Sinn Feiner, abetted by the Hun, lurks to stab them in the back’.
A clipping of two images showing (top) Jacob’s biscuit factory described as one of the ‘rebel’s forts’ and (below) Constance Markievicz ‘behind the bars at Liberty Hall’. The clippings are likely taken from the ‘Daily Mirror’ (May 1916).
