A small collection of documents relating to Patrick Pearse’s involvement with the Irish Volunteers. The collection includes an important record book of the Irish Volunteers in Dublin covering the months leading up to the 1916 Rising.
A photographic print of an assembly of Irish Volunteers. There is no caption associated with the print. The individual on the right is carrying a traditional harp flag, which was the official flag of the Irish Volunteers.
A ticket for an Irish Volunteers concert held in the Antient Concert Rooms on Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) in Dublin on 9 April 1916. The concert included an address by Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945), a Gaelic scholar and Irish nationalist who had established the Irish Volunteers in 1913. (Volume page 187).
Three copies of a tribute by Éamon de Valera to E Company of the Irish Volunteers during the Howth Gun-Running in July 1914. The text is dated 6 Mar. 1948.
Manuscript list of names in Irish (possibly compiled by Patrick Pearse). The list includes Con Colbert, Brian O’Higgins, The O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille), and Patrick Pearse.
A copy of 'Irish War News', 20 Apr. 1924 (Vol. I, No. 2) containing editorials and messages from Padraig J. Ó Ruithleis, acting president, and Sean T. O’Kelly, staff of Commandant-General Padraig Pearse, 1916.
An advertisement flier for the Irish White Cross which appeared in ‘Ár n-Éire / New Ireland’, a nationalist weekly newspaper, on 14 January 1922. The Irish White Cross was founded in February 1921 as a means of distributing funds raised primarily by the American Committee for Relief in Ireland.
Cutting from the 'Evening Herald' of a photographic print of a barge built by Br. Eugene Mooney OFM Cap., Br. Hugh Davis OFM Cap. and Br. Daniel O’Brien OFM Cap. for use on the Zambezi River.
A flier referring to a public meeting to be held in the Mansion House, Dublin (16 July 1917) calling for the reburial of the remains of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.