Celtic Cross label. Ringed cross with shamrock leaves; in the four ‘corners’ and inscriptions of ‘Éire’ and ‘Sinn Féin’ (twice) on cross. The difference between the two years being only colour. Commissioned by Arthur Griffith and designed by Lily Williams this stamp depicted the Cross of Cong with ‘ÉIRE’ at centre. Sinn Féin members paid a halfpenny each for the stamps and affixed them to letters as a propaganda move. The 1908 Post Office Act outlawed their use after protests by MPs in the House of Commons. They were continued however up to 1916 and beyond. The Cross of Cong design was adopted by the Irish Free State for some values of Irish definitive postage stamps- 3d, 10d and 11d - which were in use up to 1968.
Hibernia and Wolfhound Label. Hibernia (Erin) with harp, with arms of the four provinces of Ireland (at corners) and wolfhound; inscriptions ‘Éire’ (top panel) and ‘Sinn Féin’ (left and right panels).
The labels were printed by James Walker & Co. Ltd., Dublin in 1908, and again in 1916. The 1916 version was re-drawn and thus differs from the 1908 version.
A clipping of a photograph titled ‘Sinn Féin incendiarism in Liverpool’. The original caption notes that the image shows the ‘smouldering ruins of a Jordan Street cotton warehouse which was set on fire during Saturday night’. The clipping is taken from the ‘Manchester Guardian Weekly’ (3 December 1920).
A manifesto issued by Sinn Féin during the general election for the Fourth Dáil (27 August 1923). The first line of the text reads ‘The Sinn Féin candidates in this Election stand as they have stood in every election since 1917, for the unity and untrammelled independence of Ireland. Like Padraig Pearse they know but one definition of freedom ...’.
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).
The file comprises the following editions of this daily news sheet:
6 Dec. 1923 (no. 28)-1 Jan. 1924 (no. 44). The following copies are extant in the file: Nos. 23; 24; 25; 27; 28 (2 copies); 29 (2 copies); 30 (2 copies); 31; 32; 37; 38; 40; 41 (2 copies); 42 (2 copies); 44. It was published in Dublin at Sinn Féin Headquarters, 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin.
A clipping of a report on the Sinn Féin convention in the Mansion House in Dublin. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (26 October 1917).
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: Ard-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.
A typescript copy of a report on the proceedings of the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis held in the Mansion House in Dublin on 23 May 1922.
A bound volume containing copies of the daily edition of ‘Sinn Féin’ (24 August 1909, Vol. 1, No. 1, to 22 January 1910, Vol. 1, No. 127).