Pass signed by Major J.W. Morel, Assistant Provost Marshal, Dublin, permitting Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. ‘to travel in the streets of Dublin on duty and to visit prisoners where allowed’. Stamped and dated. With un-stamped permit allowing Fr. Columbus ‘to travel anywhere in the City and visit prisoners in Richmond [Barracks]’. Indecipherable signature at bottom of pass.
A clipping of short article announcing the release of several female prisoners detained after the insurrection. The prisoners included Annie Higgins, Madeline Ffrench-Mullen, and Nellie Gifford. The clipping is taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (5 June 1916).
A postcard print captioned ‘Liberty Hall, Headquarters of the Citizen Army, after Bombardment’.
A clipping of a report on the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Cork city at which the local regiment of Irish National Volunteers honoured the ‘400 Volunteers who are fighting for Ireland in the trenches’. The article is taken from the ‘Daily News’ (18 March 1916).
A clipping of an article referring to reports that James Connolly had died from his wounds at the General Post Office. The article was published in the ‘Daily Sketch’ (1 May 1916).
A clipping of a photograph of a horse killed in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin during the Easter Rising. The caption credits the image to the ‘Illustrated Sunday Herald’.
A clipping of an article on the declaration of martial law in Ireland and Sir John Maxwell’s appointment as Commander-in-Chief. The article refers to the reactions of various figures in the House of Commons. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (28-9 April & 1 May 1916).
A clipping of photographs of individuals associated with resisting the rebels in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, during the Easter Rising. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.
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).
A flyer condemning the 1916 executions and exhorting Americans to stay out of the First World War. “Thank God for Freedom's Martyrs in every Land and Age” is printed under the title.