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 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.
Date: 1791-1797 Author: Francis Grose (c.1731-1791) Publisher: London, Vol. 1: Printed for S. Hooper, MDCCXCI; Vol. II, Printed for M. Hooper & Wigstead, MDCCXCVII Full title: 'The antiquities of Ireland'
A pamphlet referring to the redraft of the Treaty by Ėamon de Valera titled a ‘Proposed Treaty of Association between Ireland and the British Commonwealth’ or more commonly known as ‘Document No. 2’, presented to Dáil Eireann in January 1922. Published in Dublin by the Irish Nation Committee [1923]. Titled ‘No. 6’ in a series. Who abandoned the Republic? / By a Western Priest is ‘No. 3’ in this series (CA/IR/1/7/3/23).
Inscribed on bowl: ‘Adult Choirs’ Cup’. The base of the bowl is engraved: ‘Presented by Thomas Lennon Esq.’. The bowl is also engraved with a list of winning choir groups from 1975-1997.
A view of the original Abbey Theatre building in Dublin in about 1949. The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. In its early years, the theatre was closely associated with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival including Yeats, Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey.
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ public house near Athlone in County Westmeath in about 1930. Built in 1830, this bar was named after the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’, a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, written in 1773.
Draft article by Dermot Keogh titled ‘The “New Unionism” and Ireland / Dublin Coal Porters’ Strikes, 1890: War of Attrition’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975).
