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Manuscript transcript of song ‘Republicans are We’ to the air of ‘The Soldiers’ Song’. The first verse reads:
‘When bravely we’d fought our land to free
Our Tricolour flying o’ar us,
The ancient foe for peace did seek,
From I.R.A. victorious
Our envoys went to London town
And there, let our Republic down;
But still, till Freedom battle’s won
Republicans are We’.

An image of two inhabitants of the Aran Islands in about 1940. The title of the print is ‘seanchas’, an old Irish word referring to the act of storytelling and conveying an ancient tale handed down by oral tradition. A ‘seanchaí’ was a storyteller or a custodian of this tradition.

A clipping of a poem titled ‘Sligo’ by Michael J. Kearns. The publication from which the clipping was taken is not given.

The song uses the refrain ‘Up Plunkett and McGuinness! For I want my four green fields'. Joseph McGuinness contested the 1917 South Longford by-election. At that time, he was prison in Lewes, Sussex, for his part in the 1916 Rising.

A clipping of an article praising ‘The Advocate’ newspaper published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia. The article notes that Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903) was one of its earliest editorial writers. The clipping is taken from the ‘Saint Joseph lilies’ magazine (Toronto, Canada).