Documento 18 - Mise Éire

37 items; 25 cm x 20.5 cm; 17.5 cm x 13 cm; Black and white print

Photographic prints (stills) taken from 'Mise Éire' (1959), a documentary film on the Irish Revolution (1912-1923), directed by George Morrison. The prints were compiled by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. with a view to publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:

• A decorated tram in an army recruitment parade in Dublin during World War I.
• Dublin Fusiliers seeking recruits in 1915.
• James Connolly at O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral on 1 August 1915.
• Pádraig Pearse at O’Donovan Rossa’s Funeral on 1 August 1915.
• Irish Citizen Army on parade outside Croydon House, Fairview Park, Dublin.
• Henry Street in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising.
• Crowds outside the destroyed GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin, following the Easter Rising.
• Destroyed Liberty Hall, Dublin, following the Easter Rising.
• Éamon de Valera’s election in the Clare by-election in 1917.
• John Redmond and other attendees at the Irish Convention in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1917.
• Signing the anti-conscription pledge in 1918.
• Michael Collins in Newcastle West, County Limerick. August 1922.
• Scenes during British raids in Dublin during the War of Independence in 1920.
• The shooting of Seán Tracey on Talbot Street, Dublin, on 14 October 1920.
• British troops installing a barricade outside City Hall, Dublin, in 1920.
• General Tom Barry.
• Tomás Mac Curtain.
• Michael Collins in Armagh in 1921.
• Orange men sitting around a bonfire in Northern Ireland.
• Éamon de Valera addressing people on O’Connell Street, Dublin, 1922.
• Michael Collins making a speech in College Green, Dublin, on 5 March 1922.
• Gunmen firing shots interrupt a rally held by Michael Collins in Cork on 12 Mar. 1922.
• Liam Mellows, Liam Lynch, Seán Mac Eoin, Gearóid O’Sullivan and Eoin O’Duffy in c.1922.
• Bombardment of the Four Courts by Irish Free State artillery in June 1922.
• The Four Courts in flames following the Free State bombardment in June 1922.
• Scenes of destruction on O’Connell Street following battles at the start of the Civil War in July 1922.
• IRA irregulars in Limerick in 1922.

Some of the prints are ink-stamped on the reverse: James G. Maguire Studios, 8 South Anne Street, Dublin. This studio may have been responsible for the enlargements of the original prints.