A clipping of an article reporting the appointment of new government ministers. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (3 July 1943). (Volume page 167).
A clipping of an image of the bands of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, the Irish Guards, and the Royal Irish Constabulary assembled outside the Mansion House on Dawson Street in Dublin at a recruitment meeting on 7 May 1915. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (8 October 1915). The original caption for the photograph reads ‘The Travelling Recruiting Office, taken outside the Mansion House, May 7, 1915 – the day of the departure of the Guards’ Band from Ireland at the close of a successful recruiting tour. On the platform of the Recruiting Office are the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the High Sheriff, Mr. Henry McLaughlin, and Sir Maurice Dockrell, D.L. The group on the steps include Capt. the Hon. Alexander and Lieutenant Purcell of the Guards; Lieutenant Archer Redmond MP; Sir Neville Chamberlain, Colonel Edgeworth Johnson, and several members of the Central Recruiting Council’. (Volume page 200).
A clipping of an image of a crowd at a recruitment meeting in Macroom in County Cork. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (8 October 1915). (Volume page 202).
A clipping of a report of a speech by Nora Connolly, the daughter of James Connolly, in St. Andrew’s Hall in Glasgow. The article is taken from ‘Forward’, a Scottish socialist newspaper (18 October 1919).
A clipping of an article by Donal B. O’Connell appealing for funds to save Derrynane, the former home of Daniel O’Connell in County Kerry. The article was published in ‘The Kerryman’ (25 May 1946).
A clipping of a photograph showing Dudley M. Hanley, Lord Mayor of Sligo, at a public reception marking the granting of the Freedom of the Borough of Sligo to Constance Markievicz in July 1917. The caption notes that the photograph was reprinted to mark the recent death of Dudley M. Hanley (d. 4 January 1946).
A leaflet listing Irish republicans who died in English jails. The final line reads ‘What are you going to do?’ Manuscript annotation reads ‘9th March 1919’.
An anti-conscription and anti-English handbill issued with the aim of persuading members of the Royal Irish Constabulary not to support the British war effort. It reads ‘Private Hodgins would have his work cut out for him here but for you. You are the eyes and the ears for him. Do you think that your own people are likely to forget the fact? What do you think Private Hodgins would do if the German stranger was in England and gave him a gun?’.
