- IE CA IR-1/7/3/4/4
- Stuk
- c.1922
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'I am an Irish Republican but ...'
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An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'I am an Irish Republican but ...'
Merciless tigers in their dealings with unarmed Republican prisoners
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An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Merciless tigers in their dealings with unarmed Republican prisoners. Spineless worms in their dealings with English ministers. That's what O'Higgins and Mulcahy are'.
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'On the proper shoulders'. At head of text: extracts from the Official Report of proceedings in the English House of Commons (Hansard, June 26th, 1922, Vol. 155, no. 84).
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A republican handbill titled 'Conspiracy to Murder' referring to an alleged plot to have Éamon de Valera assassinated.
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An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'The Congo Free State ...'.
The Most Rev. Dr. Fogarty says
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An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'The Most Rev. Dr. Fogarty says ...'. The text refers to remarks made by the Most Rev. Michael Fogarty (1859-1955), Bishop of Killaloe.
Free State Freaks / Richard Mulcahy
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An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to General Richard Mulcahy as ‘haunted by the dreams of prisoners murdered by his troops’.
Free State Freaks / Ernest Blythe
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An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to Ernest Blythe (1889-1975), Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. The cartoon satirizes him by referring to ‘the importance of being Earnest …’.
The branded arm of James O’Reilly
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An anti-Treaty publicity item titled 'The branded arm of James O’Reilly Sketched from life by C de M'. The cartoon is attributed to Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). The sketch shows an arm with the sleeve rolled up to expose branded marks. According to the printed statement on the accompanying page, Stephen Gorman aka James O’Reilly of Ballyblia, Ardee, County Louth, was arrested on 11 September 1922 while travelling on a weekend visit to Drogheda. He was arrested on suspicion that he had taken part in a republican demonstration in Ardee. He was then branded.
Photographic copy of a letter from Robert Erskine Childers to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.
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Photographic copy print of a letter from Erskine Childers, Beggars’ Bush Barracks, Dublin, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., declaring that he is ‘to die tomorrow at 7’. He states he will ‘die happy and undefeated and at peace with God and men’. Fr. Albert referred to this letter in his statement titled ‘The Case of Farther Albert, O.S.F.C.’, defending his actions and declaring his ‘absolute impartiality’ during the War of Independence and later at the outbreak of Civil War hostilities in Dublin in 1922 (CA IR-1-1-2-4-6).