'The United Irishman' was an Irish nationalist newspaper co-founded by Arthur Griffith and William Rooney. The first publication was issued on 4 Mar. 1899 it ran until 1906. It was sub-titled ‘A National Weekly Review’. The file contains the issue of 23 Apr. 1904 (Vol. 11 No. 269). This edition published copy correspondence from the Capuchin Friary in Cork relating to the ‘Vindication of Monsignor Persico’ (pp 2-3).
A letter from Fr. Sylvester O’Brien OFM, Franciscan Friary, Waterford, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of his article titled ‘The Unconventional Saint’ relating to the life of Joan of Arc.
Gerald Moore, ‘The unashamed accompanist’ (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd., [1944]).
A copy of ‘The Stratford Book / The Typographical Howitzer’ (Cincinnati, Ohio: The Stratford Press, 1947). The cover reads ‘The Stratford Book Devoted to Reprints of Short Familiar Classics and Some Not so Familiar … number 3 of a series’. The pamphlet is a short story by Sam Davis about Mark Twain and Dan de Quille fighting off a band of Native Americans with a howitzer armed only with paper.
A view of some mountain tunnels on the Kenmare to Glengarriff road on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork.
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The tryal of Mr. Charles Lucas / on certain articles of impeachment, exhibited against him, before the citizens of Dublin’ (Dublin: printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame Street, MDCCXLIX. [1749]).
Robert Barton, ‘The truth about the Treaty and Document no. 2 / a reply to Michael Collins / republished from “The Republic of Ireland”’ (Dublin: printed at the Wood Printing Works, [c.1921]).
Robert Barton, ‘The truth about the Treaty and Document no. 2 / a reply to Michael Collins / republished from “The Republic of Ireland”’ (Dublin: printed at the Wood Printing Works, [c.1921]).
An Anti-Treaty flyer defending Irregular republican actions in Connacht.
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The truth about the army crisis (official) / with a foreward by Major-General Liam Tobin’ ([Dublin]: Issued by the Irish Republican Army Organization, 78A Summerhill, Dublin, [1924]). The pamphlet deals with the ‘mutiny’ of high-ranking officers in the Free State army in 1924. The crisis was provoked by a proposed reduction in army numbers in the immediate post-Civil War period.