- IE CA IR-1/7/3/4/8
- Deel
- c.1922
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Without Authority ... Who are the Gun Bullies?'
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An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Without Authority ... Who are the Gun Bullies?'
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An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Mulchay said in the Dáil ...'.
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An Anti-Treaty handbill comprising a poem with a constant refrain asking ‘Who killed Cathal Brugha?’ who died in fighting on O’Connell Street in July 1922.
It reads:
“Who killed Cathal Brugha?”
“I” said Mick Collins,
With a toss of his head
Tis well he is dead
I killed Cathal Brugha.
The second stanza contains a similar refrain in respect of General Richard Mulcahy.
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An Anti-Treaty handbill (black type on buff coloured paper). Text on recto reads: (on left-hand side) ‘“Yesterday the RIC were Irishmen who took (includes image of a hand pointing to the following line in bold type in centre of handbill) "Guns and Orders from England". (On right-hand side) "To-day Free-State soldiers are Irishmen who take (includes another image of a hand pointing to the same line in bold type in centre of handbill) "Guns and Orders from England / in order to / Shoot down Republican Soldiers / Destroy Republican Printing Presses / Raid the homes of Irish Republicans / Fire on Irish Prisoners in the Jails / Fill the Jails with Irish Volunteers / Wage economic war on the Dependants / of the Irish Republicans. / You did not Join the Irish Volunteers for this. / (in larger font and bold type) Don't be any longer Blind. The Men against you are Fighting without / Pay for the Old Cause which/ will NEVER DIE”’.
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A handbill in the form of an ironic attack on the Free State leaders. This Anti-Oath flyer quotes the articles in the Free State constitution which refer to allegiance to ‘the King’ and refers to Kevin O’Higgins’ support for them.
Free State Freaks / W.T. Cosgrave
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An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to W.T. Cosgrave as the ‘Jester in chief to the Freak State'.
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A republican handbill with the text of a ballad titled 'A Dublin Battle Ditty' referring to the attack by the forces of the Provisional Government on the Four Courts and the ensuing fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922.
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A republican cartoon by Constance Markievicz published during the Civil War affirming that Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins are ‘marching heads up into the Empire over the bodies of their murdered Comrades’.
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The file comprises the following editions: 6 July 1922. (no. 1) – 16 July 1922. (no. 7); 29 July (no. 11) – 5 Aug. 1922 (no. 12). These were styled the ‘war news’ editions. The editor of 'Nationality' was Sean T. O’Kelly. The newspaper of the same name was suppressed after the 1916 Rising, but was published for a couple of years later in Belfast. These first seven issues of the weekly paper cover all the hostilities during this early Civil War period, including the shooting of Cathal Brugha. The file includes multiple copies of some editions.
Poblacht na hEireann (War News)
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'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 2, 29 June 1922.