Report on the ‘Lusitania’ Sinking
- IE CA CP/3/16/1/34
- Part
- 8 May 1915
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A page-length report on the sinking of the ‘Lusitania’ published in the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (8 May 1915).
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Report on the ‘Lusitania’ Sinking
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A page-length report on the sinking of the ‘Lusitania’ published in the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (8 May 1915).
Republic of Ireland Bond Certificate
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A Republic of Ireland Bond Certificate (for $10) issued by Éamon de Valera during his American tour. This bond was issued to Hannah Ritchie and is dated 21 January 1920. The printed signature of Éamon de Valera has the unusual spelling of ‘de Bhailéara’.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A handbill in the republican interest drawing a parallel between the executions carried out by the British government and the Irish Free State.
Republican Hunger-strikers, Mountjoy Jail, Dublin
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A copy print of a group of republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Irish republican prisoners / Hunger strike / Mountjoy Jail, October 1919 / second from right top row is Pádraig Ó Caoimh’.
Republican Prisoners’ Hunger-Strike Manifesto
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A flier with the text of a manifesto signed off on by IRA prisoners Michael Kilroy and Michael MacGiollaruaidh, then on hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail. The text refers to the death of Terence MacSwiney in 1920.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A flier with the text of a poem by Maeve Cavanagh titled ‘Rescue’ referring to the imprisonment of Irish republicans.
Research Notes and Draft Articles
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Resignation of Bishop Bartholomew Woodlock
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of an article reporting the resignation of Bartholomew Woodlock as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise (‘Irish Times’, 12 October 1894).
Return of 1916 Ephemera / ‘Flag of Surrender Returned’
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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).
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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.