A set of four picture postcards produced by Valentine & Sons of Dundee, Scotland. The postcards are titled 'Irish Jaunting Car', 'Irish Turf Sellers', 'Carrying Home the Turf', and 'Going for Turf'.
The file comprises the following article clippings:
‘Pearse saw Ireland with idealism, and detachment’, 'Irish Press', 10 Nov. 1954. Another clipping from the same edition of the paper includes articles by Francis MacManus, Pádraig de Brún, and Lennox Robinson.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Emmet’s spirit over Rathfarnham’, 'Irish Press', 13 Nov. 1954.
Desmond Ryan, ‘A moment with Pearse’, 'Irish Press', 11 Nov. 1954. Includes a photograph Senator Margaret Mary Pearse, ‘the only surviving member of the family’.
Desmond Ryan, ‘Pearse the orator’, 'Irish Press', 12 Nov. 1954.
A clipping of a photograph of a group of Irish prisoners held at a camp in Limburg, Germany. It is noted that Lance Corporal Eite, Royal Irish Rifles, was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Marne (September 1914). Lance Corporal Eite was employed at the Guinness Brewery prior to the outbreak of the war. It is also affirmed that Eite’s father resides at 31 Oxmantown Road in Dublin.
A flier promoting the ‘Irish Race Convention’ in New York in August 1932. This fund-raising convention was organised by the ‘Irish World’ newspaper, the largest Irish American newspaper.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Henry Street, Dublin, after the shelling of the rebels’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Liberty Hall, Dublin, the rebel headquarters, after the storming’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Liberty Hall, Dublin, the rebel headquarters, after the storming’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / soldiers bivouacking opposite Liberty Hall, the rebel headquarters in Dublin’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Talbot Street, Dublin, held against a rebel charge. Picture taken under fire’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.
A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / the interior of the ballroom, Imperial Hotel, Dublin, after the siege’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.