The file includes the following editions from mainly national newspapers reporting on the Rising and on subsequent events: 'Cork Examiner', 24 June 1916 'Irish Weekly Independent', 29 Apr. & 6 May & 13 May 1916 'Weekly Irish Times', 29 Apr. & 13 May 1916 'Irish Times', 18 Apr.-1 May 1916; 12 May 1916 (p. 5 only) 'Saturday Herald', 27 May 1916 'Cork Examiner', 6 May 1916 'Freeman’s Journal', 11-13 May 1916; 2 June 1916 (13 May 1916 has pp 5-8 only). 'Irish Independent', 15 May 1916
'The New World' was published in Chicago and claimed to be the ‘largest Catholic newspaper in the United States’. The file contains the issue: 11 Aug. 1916 (vol. xxv, No. 6). The paper contains an article titled ‘How they butchered James Connolly’. (p. 4).
The Report of the Royal Commission on the Rebellion in Ireland in 1916. A Royal Commission of Inquiry was established under Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858-1944) to investigate the causes of the Rising. The commission commenced its work on 18 May 1916 and it heard evidence over nine days from key figures including Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland (1905-1916), and Neville Chamberlain, the Inspector General of the Royal Irish Constabulary. The report of the commission was published on 26 June 1916. The report outlined conclusions drawn from the commission of inquiry. It criticized the administrative and intelligence systems in place in Ireland. It reached the general conclusion that the main cause of the rebellion, ‘appears to be that lawlessness was allowed to grow up unchecked, and that Ireland for several years past has been administered on the principle that it was safer and more expedient to leave the law in abeyance if collision with any faction of the Irish people could thereby be avoided'.
Circular regarding conferences of the clergy in the Diocese of Ossory in 1916. The circular includes the dates of the annual collection, the diocesan retreat for the clergy, the meeting of the committee of St. Kieran’s College and the order of diocesan visitations. Signed by the Most Rev. Abraham Brownrigg, Bishop of Ossory.
A ticket for an Irish Volunteers concert held in the Antient Concert Rooms on Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) in Dublin on 9 April 1916. The concert included an address by Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945), a Gaelic scholar and Irish nationalist who had established the Irish Volunteers in 1913. (Volume page 187).
A flyer condemning the 1916 executions and exhorting Americans to stay out of the First World War. “Thank God for Freedom's Martyrs in every Land and Age” is printed under the title.
A postcard print of Michael O’Hanrahan. The caption reads ‘Author of the “The Swordsmen of the Brigade” etc / Executed in Kilmainham Prison, May 4th 1916’.
