A pamphlet in the republican interest written under the pseudonym of ‘Columban na Banban’. The pamphlet urges priests to adhere to the Republic and to defy their Bishop’s commands: ‘The Republican Police Force is not disbanded. … Mulcahy will surrender as surely as Macready surrendered. Doubtless when all arguments are used the Bishops will remain your great stumbling block’. (p. 11).
Detail from the exterior of George's Street Arcade, a Victorian style red-bricked market building (opened in 1881) located on South Great George's Street in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Beauty in block at George's Street, Dublin'.
A flier titled ‘George Noble Plunkett was born in Dublin on December 3rd, 1851. In 1884 he received the title of Count of The Holy Roman Empire ... A vote for Plunkett is a vote for Ireland's freedom’. The leaflet is most likely an election flier for the North Roscommon by-election in February 1917.
An image of Colm and Máire Gavan Duffy, the children of George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951), an Irish politician, jurist, and solicitor, and one of the signatories to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. As the caption notes, the two are ‘photographed in Paris [in] 1920 during their father’s term of office as representative of the Irish Republic’.
An information sheet titled ‘George Bernard Shaw appeals to the IRA / friendship with Britain’. The document quotes from remarks by George Bernard Shaw with ‘Ireland's answer’ signed by P. Fleming ‘on behalf of the Government of the Republic’.
A collection of photographic prints showing the North and South Sioma Falls region of the Zambezi River, Western Province, Zambia. The prints were produced by Geo Survey International Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya, for Br. Andew O’Shea OFM Cap. Some of the prints have been annotated: ‘Linanga’, ‘Sioma Plain’, ‘Spencer’s Village’, and ‘Ferry Crossing’.
An article titled ‘Geoffrey Keating’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. The article is taken from the ‘Journal of the Ivernian Society’ (July-Sept., 1913), pp 197-202.
A handbill, in the republican interest, underlining the emphasis in the articles of the Irish Free State constitution which were declared vital and unalterable by Kevin O’Higgins – ‘on the authority of the King’. Published in Dublin .
