Reference code
IE CA IR-1/7/3/12
Title
To the Free State Soldiers
Date(s)
- c.1922 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
2 copies; 2 pp; Typescript
Name of creator
(1615-2023)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
An Anti-Treaty handbill (black typescript on buff coloured paper), urging Free State soldiers to lay down their arms. It reads: ‘Ireland has one enemy, the infamous English enemy. She has tricked you, kindly, simple lads, as she tricked Irishmen all through the ages of war against her. … The Irish Republic is not dead. A hundred thousand armed men are in Ireland to-day ready to give their lives that it may live. You are killing them as the R.I.C. tried to kill you’.