A clipping of a report on various Sinn Féin meetings and demonstrations in the country. Reference is made to speeches made by Darrel Figgis and George Noble Plunkett. The report was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (20 September 1917).
A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’), a small Irish neo-fascist party. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).
A clipping of a report on requiem mass for William ‘Willie’ Redmond held in the Church of St. Francis Xavier in Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Evening Telegraph’ (13 June 1917).
A memoriam card for Terence MacSwiney. The card reads ‘In Loving Memory of Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne [Terence MacSwiney] TD, Commandant 1st Cork Brigade IRA. Lord Mayor of Cork. Who died for his Country in Brixton Prison, England, 26th October, 1920. (4th Year of the Irish Republic)’ with a portrait photograph and religious text. This particular card gives the date of his death as 26 October, but MacSwiney died on the morning of 25 October.
A photographic postcard print of Kathleen Lynn with the three infant daughters of George Fullerton in July 1917. Known as the ‘Republican Triplets’, the children were named Kathleen, Grace, and Constance. The group includes on the left Dr Lynn (1874-1955) and on the right Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). As the card’s annotation suggests, George Fullerton (d. 1934) was a member of the Irish Citizen Army. During the 1916 Rising, he was wounded while attempting to escape from St. Stephen’s Green to the nearby Royal College of Surgeons building which had been occupied by the Irish Volunteers.
A photograph an Irish National Army officer (identified as ‘Captain Heaslip’ in the original caption) conversing with a Major in the Worcestershire Regiment as the former prepares to assume guard duties at the Bank of Ireland building on College Green in Dublin. This was one of several significant public handovers from the British administration to the Provisional Government during 1922. The event was noteworthy as it was first time that the historic Bank of Ireland building (prior to 1801 it housed the Parliament of Ireland) was guarded by non-British troops.
