A collection of printed pamphlets and information sheets relating to the Six Day War and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The file includes the following publications: • Sister Marie Therese, 'War in Jerusalem / An eye-witness account of the Israeli invasion, 5th-8th June 1967'. Published by the Irish Arab Society. • 'Edwin Montagu and the Balfour Declaration'. Published by the Arab League Office (London, [1967]). • Walid Khalidi, 'Jerusalem / The Arab Case'. (1967). • 'Palestine / An outline of the problem'. Published by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Committee. (c.1967). • John Carter, 'An eyewitness in Jerusalem / Spring 1969'. Published by The Jerusalem Committee (London, 1969). • Rabbi Elmer Berger, 'Israel’s threat to Judaism / In Palestine: Zionism v. Judaism, Christianity, Islam'. Published by the Irish Arab Society (1970). • The file includes a blank membership form for the Irish-Arab Society, 38 Grafton Street, Dublin 2.
A pamphlet relating to the trial and execution of Erskine Childers (1870-1922) who was convicted by a Free State military court on charges of illegally possessing a firearm and sentenced to death. While his appeal against the sentence was still pending, Childers was executed by firing squad at the Beggar’s Bush Barracks in Dublin on 24 Nov. 1922. The tract includes an elegy on Erskine Childers by Padraig de Brún. Published in London by Leslie Smith & Co., printers.
A photographic print of a large crowd at a musical performance at the Band Hollow in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, in c.1945. In the early twentieth century, the Dublin United Tramways Company sponsored the performances of brass bands on the bandstand in the Hollow not far from the Zoo in the Phoenix Park.
Photographic prints compiled for an article by T.F. O’Sullivan titled ‘The Big House’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977). The file includes prints of the interior and exterior of Borris House, the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanaghs in County Carlow, and a depilated shopfront possibly in Borris. The prints are credited to T.F. O’Sullivan. The file also includes images of Glashganny Lock on the River Barrow.
A pamphlet in the republican interest referring to those interned by British authorities in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. Written by the Most Rev. Edward Thomas O’Dwyer (1842-1917), Bishop of Limerick. Published in Limerick, 1917.
