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Irish Emigrants and English Mobs / Letter from the Bishop of Limerick

A leaflet with the text of a letter from Edward Thomas O’Dwyer, the Bishop of Limerick, to the editor of the ‘Munster News’ dated 10 November 1915. The text reads ‘the treatment which the poor Irish emigrant lads have received at Liverpool is enough to make any Irishman's blood boil with anger and indignation. What wrong have they done to deserve insults and outrage at the hands of a brutal English mob? They don't want to be forced into the English Army, and sent to fight English battles in some part of the world’.

Letter from Robert Monteith

A clipping of a letter from Captain Robert Monteith published in the ‘Irish Workers’ Review’ (March 1946). The letters refer to his reminiscences of old labour colleagues in Ireland. His letter is dated 31 December 1945.

Execution "Cheers"

A republican leaflet asserting that the news of the execution of the 1916 leaders was greeted by cheers from members of the House of Commons. The document is an election flier for Joseph McGuinness in the South Longford by-election. Sub-title reads ‘Irish Independent of April 23rd’. Signed Darrell Figgis (1882-1925), Fairford, Gloucestershire, 20 April 1917.

Griffith and De Valera

A republican flier with the text of a ballad titled ‘Griffith & De Valera / or “put” and “take” for Ireland’. To be sung to the air of ‘The Peeler and the Goat’.

Sinn Féin Meeting Flier

A flier promoting a ‘monster meeting’ to aid in the establishment of a Sinn Féin club. The meeting was to be held in the Purveyors’ Assistants Hall on Exchange Street in Dublin.

Seán O’Casey’s tribute to Jim Larkin

A clipping of an article reporting Seán O’Casey’s tribute to Jim Larkin, the veteran Irish trade union leader, revolutionary, and socialist. The newspaper from which the article was taken is not given.

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