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'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 47, 24 August 1922. This edition was published two days after the death of Michael Collins, the National Army's Commander-in-Chief, at Béal na Bláth in County Cork. Its editorial on Collins commences: 'Yesterday the Nation was shocked by the news of Michael Collins death … now his boundless energy and inexhaustible resource are no more ...' This is one of the last issues of 'War News' produced by Erskine Childers in West Cork before THE encircling National Army made anti-Treaty positions untenable, and he had to move the printing press into a vacant cottage at Ballyvourney. Helping him to print his news sheets were Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Sean Hendrick (all famous writers), and R. Longford who later established the Lee Press in Cork city.

The file comprises the following: an undated first edition of 'Freedom' containing an ‘extract from a letter from Rory O’Connor’ regarding the attack on the Free Courts; 17 Sept. 1922 (no edition number) with a portrait of Lawrence Ginnell by Constance Markievicz; 24 Sept. 1922 (No. 7) with a drawing of the ‘the branded arm of James O’Reilly sketched from life’ by Constance Markievicz; 22 Oct. 1922 (No. 11), 3 copies; Dec. 1922.

The Scottish edition of this weekly Anti-Treaty newspaper.

The newssheet is titled ‘No. 1’, and urges the ‘men of the Free State Army to read what your English Allies think of you’.

The file contains the following editions of this illustrated weekly newspaper:
8 July 1922 (No. 4,342. Vol. 161); 15 July 1922 (4,343. Vol. 161). The editions contain numerous photographic prints of the fighting in Dublin at the outbreak of the Civil War. Includes a photograph of ‘Father Dominic [O'Connor OFM Cap.], who was reported to have been with the Rebels in the Four Courts’.

A flier titled 'The Irish Republic Alive, Alive O’. (Volume page 31).

A printed list of Irish Volunteers killed in action during the 1916 Rising. (Volume page 37).

A letter from Rory O’Connor to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. recalling the republican occupation of the Four Courts and the assistance rendered by the friar during that time. Reference is also made to ‘co-ordinated military action against N.E. Ulster’. O’Connor concludes ‘We have never acknowledged the heroic services which you rendered us during the days you were with us in the Four Courts, during the attack, it seems unnecessar[y] as your devotion to Ireland’s liberty is no less than ours’. (Volume page 112).

The front cover of the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (Vol. XXXIX, No. 14, 26 May 1922). The cover has drawings of Éamon de Valera and Michael Collins. The artist is credited as Frank Leah (1886-1972). (Volume page 203).

A clipping referring to a public demonstration in Castlebar, County Mayo, on 2 April 1922. The event included speeches by Michael Collins, Seán McKeon (Seán Mac Eoin), and Alexander McCabe (Alasdair Mac Caba). The article is taken from the 'Irish Independent' (30 March 1922).