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A bound volume containing original Sinn Féin circulars and printed ephemera. Most of the material dates from 1918 to 1920. The volume includes material relating to the conscription crisis, the 1918 General Election, the Irish Republican Prisoners’ Dependents’ Fund, Sinn Féin organisational matters and party finances, the local elections of 1920, the operation of the Dáil Courts, arbitration in local land disputes, and the Irish Self-Determination League. The volume has extensive manuscript annotations. Many of the circulars were issued by senior Sinn Féin committee members including Thomas Kelly, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, and Pádraig Ó Caoimh. Some later ephemera and newspaper clippings with a provenance to Pádraig Ó Caoimh are also inserted into the volume.

Sinn Féin. Tuairisc na Rúnaithe: Árd-Fheis, 1921. Includes Secretaries’ report and note on the accounts of the party. Printed in Dublin by Sinn Féin. Physical description: 10 pp; tables; 26 cm; With typescript report of the Hon. Treasurer at the Árd-Fheis, 27 Oct. 1921. The report notes that ‘in presenting the balance sheet of the most abnormal year the Sinn Fein Organisation has yet experienced, it is a matter for congratulation that thro’ all the stress and pressure of the greater portion of the time covered by the present balance sheet the Organisation continued to work steadily by keeping in touch with all its Comhairle Ceanntair …’. Includes a table titled ‘Receipts and disbursements from 1st October 1920 to 8 Oct. 1921’. Typescript signature of Siobhan Bean an Phaoraigh, Hon. Secretary.

The file contains the following editions of this nationalist newspaper edited by Arthur Griffith.
20 Sept. 1913 (Vol. 4, No. 190)
7 Nov. 1914 (Vol. 5, No. 237)
21 Nov. 1914 (Vol. 5, No. 239)
When his newspaper 'The United Irishman' closed in 1906 due to a libel action, Griffith adopted the title 'Sinn Féin' for the replacement paper where he continued to promote his policies until its suppression in 1914.

The file comprises the following editions of this weekly Anti-Treaty newspaper:
7 Aug. 1923 (Vol. 1, No. 1)-27 Oct. 1923 (Vol. 1, No. 27); Multiple copies
Note: No. 15 is missing.
3 Nov. 1923 (Vol. 2, No. 2)-25 Oct. 1924 (Vol. 2, No. 53); Multiple copies
Note: Vol. 2, No. 34 is missing.
1 Nov. 1924 (Vol. 3, No. 1)-13 June 1925 (Vol. 3, No. 33); Multiple copies
Note: Vol. 3, No. 32 is missing.