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Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 5 March 1923.

Prisoner (James Quirke) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 8 March 1923.

Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 13 March 1923.

Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 24 March 1923.

A satirical republican flier on the demise of the pro-Treaty 'Freeman's Journal' newspaper. The flier promotes a 'funeral procession' for the paper and notes that it ceased publication 'from an acute attack of Clerical Intimidation, Softening of the Back-bone, and other painful disorders'. Reference is made to the former proprietors of the newspaper, Francis Higgins (c.1745–1802), probably better known as the 'Sham Squire', and Sir John Gray (1815-1875).

The file contains the following editions of this weekly nationalist newsprint edited by Ed. Dalton: 28 Mar. 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 8)-23 Apr. 1916 (Vol. 1, No. 64). The series is incomplete but there are multiple copies of some editions extant in the file. The cover banner of 'The Spark' was drawn by Grace Gifford

A copy of 'The Spark' of 23 April 1916 (Vol. III, no. 64).

The file comprises the following editions of this weekly socialist and nationalist newspaper founded and edited by James Connolly:
6 Nov. 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 24)
18 Dec. 1915 (Vol. 1, No. 30)
1 Apr. 1916 (Vol. 1, No. 45)
From 1915, Connolly printed 'The Workers’ Republic' newspaper on a Double Crown Wharfdale printer from offices at Liberty Hall.