A clipping of an article titled ‘In his own way, Shaw was faithful to Ireland’ by Aodh de Blacam published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (5 November 1950).
A clipping of a photograph of George Bernard Shaw while on holidays in Rosslare in County Wexford. The caption notes that it was one of the last photographs taken of Shaw in Ireland. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Travel’ magazine (February 1951).
An information sheet titled ‘George Bernard Shaw appeals to the IRA / friendship with Britain’. The document quotes from remarks by George Bernard Shaw with ‘Ireland's answer’ signed by P. Fleming ‘on behalf of the Government of the Republic’.
A photographic print of General Richard Mulcahy at the formal handover of Beggars Bush Barracks to the National Army in Dublin on 1 February 1922. Captain O’Daly (right) has just been presented with the colours.
A republican flier with the text of a ballad be sung to the air of ‘Where the Blarney roses grow’. The first line reads ‘Twas over in Rathcormac, near the town of old Fermoy’. Cuthbert Lucas became Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade in Ireland in 1919. During the Irish War of Independence, in June 1920 he was captured by the IRA and held in East Clare. He was released four weeks later.