A photographic print of Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), President of Ireland, at a public ceremony. Both Éamon de Valera and John A. Costello are present in the background.
An image of Irish Volunteers posing with an Irish tricolour flag. No indication of the names of the individuals or the location of the photograph is given.
A photograph print of retired British Army soldiers outside the entrance to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin.
A bound volume containing newspapers clippings broadly covering significant events in the Irish Revolution. The volume contains clippings relating to Thomas Ashe, Tomás MacCurtain, the treaty debates, Jim Larkin and Irish trade unionism, executions during the Civil War, and the murder of Noel Lemass. Other (seemingly unrelated) clippings relate to the contested will of Richard Croker (1843-1922), an Irish American leader of New York City’s Tammany Hall organisation. The disputed will was the subject of a probate lawsuit in the Court of King’s Bench in Ireland. Many of the clippings are taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ and the ‘Manchester Guardian Weekly’.
A letter from Denis Ireland, 62 Eglantine Avenue, Belfast, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
A letter from James J. Campbell, 27 Old Cavehill Road, Belfast, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., referring to his comment on the ‘Orange Terror’ article by ‘Ultach’ in ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride, Roebuck House, Clonskea, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to her views on partition and the forthcoming content on the same subject in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She wrote ‘The infirmities of old age prevent me from active work, but leave me more time for thought, and I believe that on the ending of partition Ireland’s destiny depends …’.
A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride, Roebuck House, Clonskea, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., referring to the issue of partition. She affirms that she ‘is one of those banned from entering the 6 counties and have been twice arrested for crossing the border’.
A clipping reporting on T.J. Campbell’s criticism of the passage of the Special Powers Amendment Bill in the Stormont parliament in Northern Ireland. The article was published in the ‘The Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner’ (19 March 1943).
A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’) on the subject of partition. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).