A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Liberty Hall, Dublin, the rebel headquarters, after the storming’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / the interior of the ballroom, Imperial Hotel, Dublin, after the siege’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Talbot Street, Dublin, held against a rebel charge. Picture taken under fire’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
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 clipping of a report on the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Secretary for Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 6 May 1882. The report was published in the ‘Morning Post’ newspaper.
A handbill protesting the actions of the English in Ireland and a call for the violence to end. The flier was published by the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain. Includes quotes from Lord McCauley, Lloyd George, Joseph Chamberlain, Herbert Asquith, Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill. The text reads ‘You are making war on Ireland today in order to impose the will of a small insolent minority on the Irish nation ... in violation of every principle of honour, justice, morality and democracy’.
A republican flier titled ‘Sinn Féin – the fruitful principle’. The text includes from Éamon de Valera’s ‘interview with Mr. W.H. Brayden of the Associated Press of America, July 20th, 1923’
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 clipping of an image from the ‘Sunday Herald’ (7 May 1916) purporting to show a ‘Dublin street battle actually in progress’ during the Rising. The caption also suggests that the image is ‘the only snapshot yet published of the fighting in Dublin’.