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Irish Race Convention Flier

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.

God save Ireland from the Staters

A republican flier titled ‘God save Ireland from the Staters’ criticising the military forces of the Free State and referring to them as ‘Churchill’s Green Tans’.

General Lucas

A republican flier with the text of a ballad be sung to the air of ‘Where the Blarney roses grow’. The first line reads ‘Twas over in Rathcormac, near the town of old Fermoy’. Cuthbert Lucas became Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade in Ireland in 1919. During the Irish War of Independence, in June 1920 he was captured by the IRA and held in East Clare. He was released four weeks later.

The Smith of Ballinalee (Seán Mac Eoin)

A flier with the text of a ballad celebrating ‘The Smith of Ballinalee by ‘“Sean”, East Limerick’. Seán Mac Eoin's exploits as commander of the IRA's north Longford flying column, which carried out successful attacks on British forces at Ballinalee (November 1920) and Clonfin, near Granard (February 1921), earned him the sobriquet ‘the Blacksmith of Ballinalee’.

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