An article reporting on the return by Captain E.J. Hitzen of some mementoes and ephemera he captured following the 1916 Rising. The items included the white flag used by Éamon de Valera during the surrender of Boland’s Mill. The article also refers to Hitzen’s recollections of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (5 April 1948).
A large crowd welcomes the return of Harry Boland (central figure with straw hat) to Dublin following his release from prison in 1917. Boland had been arrested following the 1916 Rising and was sentenced to five years penal servitude serving his time first in Dartmoor Jail and later in Lewes Prison.
A clipping of an account of the opening days of the Rising by Rev. Gordon Clements, The Manse, Donore, South Circular Road, Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’ (3 May 1916).
A clipping of a report on a meeting of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland at which the country’s right to the paintings in the Hugh Lane Bequest was asserted. The article was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (31 March 1949).
An image of the River Blackwater near Benburb in County Tyrone. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Spring on Blackwater at Benburb, County Tyrone'. An ink stamp credits the image to James Roland Bainbridge, 26 Shandon Park, Knock, Belfast.
An image captioned 'the River Boyne at Slane, County Meath'. The photograph shows the bridge and beyond the ‘Old Mill’ building and complex on the north bank of River Boyne at Slane.
