Dossier 4 - Irish Revolution Photographs

Photographic prints relating to the Irish Revolution compiled for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Many of the prints were used for commemorative features on the 1916 Rising in the 'Annuals' of 1942 and 1966 and in editions from 1967 to 1971 covering events in the War of Independence. The file includes several original prints along with copies sourced from the National Library of Ireland, the National Museum of Ireland, the 'Irish Press', the 'Irish Independent', and from other repositories and photographic studios. The file includes the following images:

• Fianna Éireann physical culture class in 1913.
• Constance Markievicz with Fianna Éireann in 1915.
• Membership card of Michael O’Hanrahan of An Cumann Cosanta. 20 Dec. 1915.
• Postcard prints of the destruction in Dublin in the aftermath of the Rising. (The prints are from the Valentine’s series and Keogh Brothers). Includes: ‘Hotel Metropole and Post Office, Dublin. Before and After’.
• Original prints showing Gaelic football and hurling teams at St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, Dublin. The photograph is credited to T.F. Geoghegan, Dublin.
• Holes in a window in the Church Street Capuchin Friary believed to have been left by bullets fired during the 1916 Rising.
• Mount Street Bridge, Clanwilliam Place, after the 1916 Rising.
• Éamon de Valera under guard at Richmond Barracks in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising.
• The remains of the barricade at Church Street in the aftermath of the Rising.
• General Sir John Maxwell and other British officers during the 1916 Rising.
• Studio photograph of James Connolly.
• Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916.
• Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, by Cathal MacDubhghaill.
• The washroom, Frongoch Camp. The drawing is signed: ‘P.J. Murray (wounded prisoner), Frongoch, Nov. 1916’.
• A large group of Irish prisoners detained in Stafford Jail in England following the 1916 Rising.
• Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. at Lough Derg.
• Black and white photographic negatives including images of Sackville Street and Eden Quay after the 1916 Rising, artwork showing Patrick Pearse in the General Post Office, and studio photographs of Arthur Griffith, Joseph Plunkett and Thomas MacDonagh.
• The return of released IRA prisoners to Dublin in 1917. Includes a print showing a large crowd outside Westland Row Station awaiting the return of released republicans. Other prints show Harry Boland being feted upon his arrival in the city.
• Funeral procession of Thomas Ashe through the streets of Dublin. 1 Oct. 1917.
• Count George Noble Plunkett at a proclaimed republican meeting in Beresford Place, Dublin, in 1917.
• Put him in to get him out. Election poster for Joseph McGuinness (1875-1922) in the South Longford by-election in 1917. A copy of the original poster is extant at CA IR-1-7-2-6. https://catholicarchives.ie/index.php/put-him-in-to-get-him-out-vote-for-mcguinness-the-man-in-jail-for-ireland
• Éamon de Valera on the steps of Ennis Courthouse during the East Clare by-election in July 1917.
• A Felon of Our Land. An election poster encouraging the public to vote for W.T. Cosgrave as Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny city in the parliamentary by-election in August 1917.
• Constance Markievicz marching in a rally in support of Sinn Féin at the Kilkenny by-election in 1917.
• George Noble Plunkett’s Convention in the Mansion House, Dublin, in 1917.
• Arthur Griffith and Éamon de Valera leaving the Mansion House, Dublin, after the Anti-Conscription Conference in 1918.
• Copy of a document titled ‘Instructions for the Guidance of Courts Martial where a sentence of death has been passed’. The instructions relate to Private J. Dowling, Connaught Rangers, who was accused of ‘voluntarily aiding the enemy’. The document is dated 9 July 1918.
• Photographic print of a painted portrait of Austin Stack (1879-1929).
• Irish envoys in Paris with American representatives in 1919. The print shows George Gavan Duffy, Seán T. O’Kelly and Frank P. Walsh, an American lawyer (1864-1939).
• Seán T. O’Kelly calling at the office of Georges Clémenceau to deliver the Irish claim to representation at the Paris peace conference in 1919.
• Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953).
• Peadar Clancy (1888-1920).
• Tomás Mac Curtain, Terence MacSwiney and other republicans in Cork.
• Liam Mellows (1892-1922) and James O’Mara (1873-1948).
• Members of Cork Corporation who voted for the election of Tomás MacCurtain as Lord Major of Cork on 31 Jan. 1920.
• Michael Collins. The caption on the reverse affirms that Collins was addressing a meeting to promote the National Loan at St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin, in 1920.
• Photographic print of a drawing which is annotated: ‘a contemporary cartoon by a Breton artist’. The drawing possibly relates to the death of Terence MacSwiney.
• The funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney in London in October 1920. The procession includes Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.
• Terence MacSwiney lying in state in Cork on 31 October 1920.
• Joseph McGuinness (1875-1922) in an Irish Volunteer uniform.
• The first Dáil (An Chéad Dáil) in session in the Mansion House, Dublin, 1919.
• Postcard print of Irish republican prisoners in England. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘Frank McCabe, Peter Healy (dead), Joe McBride, Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh, Liam Pedlar, Secilg [John Joseph O’Kelly], Barney Mellows, Darrell Figgis, Dr McCartain, Fairford [Gloucestershire]’.
• The chapel in Lewes Jail where IRA prisoners were detained.
• Main gate entrance to Wakefield Prison.
• Richard ‘Dick’ McKee, E. Fitzgerald and G. Malone and other republicans in 1920.
• Michael Collins and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. at the wedding of Eliza Clancy and Michael O’Brien, 16 Airfield Road, Dublin (22 Nov. 1920). The print is credited to Keogh Brothers, 124 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
• Mick O’Donnell, Tom Kehoe, Vincent Byrne, Paddy Daly and Jim Slattery, members of Michael Collins’s IRA ‘squad’.
• Scene on Upper Church Street, Dublin, shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest in September 1920.
• Photographic prints of General Michael Collins. The prints are credited to F.E. Burdett, Peak View Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
• General Richard Mulcahy, Kevin O’Higgins, Arthur Griffith and other individuals (including clerics).
• Arthur Griffith, Éamon de Valera, Laurence O’Neill (1864-1943), and Michael Collins probably in Croke Park, Dublin.
• Art Ó Briain (1872-1949), Harry Boland, George Gavan Duffy, and Seán T. O’Kelly in 1921.
• The monument erected for the IRA men who were killed in the Selton Hill ambush in County Leitrim on 11 March 1921.
• Arthur Griffith lying in state in City Hall, Dublin, Aug. 1922.
• Michael Collins at the funeral of Arthur Griffith in Dublin on 16 Aug. 1922.
• Margaret Pearse (1878-1968).
• Fr. Michael O’Flanagan (1876-1942).
• Diarmuid Lynch (1878-1950).
• Photographic print of a painted portrait of General Richard Mulcahy (1886-1971).
• Photographic print of a typescript copy of the last letter Erskine Childers to his wife (20 Nov. 1922).
• Copy photographic prints of Anti-Treaty IRA men occupying the Four Courts in Dublin, June 1922. One of the prints is annotated on the reverse: ‘Capt. Joe McHenry, O/C Four Courts’ Garrison / Féilim McHenry, Templeogue, Dublin 16’.
• Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (d. 11 Jan. 1935) with Free State soldiers inspecting damage near the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin, after the attack on the Four Courts, June 1922. The print appears to be an original.