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Poster bearing a facsimile of Seán Mac Diarmada’s last letter to John Daly. The text is surrounded by an ornamental border in which are embedded photographs of Seán Mac Diarmada, John Daly, Thomas Clarke and Edward (Ned) Daly.

Flyers and pamphlets of Republican sentiment from the 1910s, as follows: patriotic poems relating to Thomas Ashe and Roger Casement; Two Poems of Triumph in Death by Alice Furlong and Alice Milligan; German Catholic Leader Raises Irish Question; copy of Laurence Ginnell’s speech made in the British House of Commons on 11 May 1916; Irishmen Your Country Needs You; a poem entitled 'Begorra', Said Mick, I Don’t Mind if I Do; copies of addresses by Seán Mac Diarmada and Thomas MacDonagh written before their execution; letter from the Bishop of Killaloe to Freeman’s Journal relating to the death of Thomas Ashe; an information sheet relating to Emmet Commemoration; and an outsize pamphlet containing lyrics to popular republican songs.

Small posters bearing the words ‘Ireland United Free and Gaelic’.

Flyers and pamphlets of Republican sentiment from the 1920s, as follows: fragment of a pamphlet in which Laurence Ginnell outlines his objections to the Anglo-Irish Treaty; pamphlet entitled Who Abandoned the Republic?; Liam Mellows’ last letter to his mother; flyer To the Memory of Five Brave Irishmen Who Died for Ireland; flyer Republican News; pamphlet What Irish Republicans Stand For by Constance de Markievicz; balance sheet and secretary’s report of Limerick United Trades & Labour Council for 1921; poem Before the Last Battle by Terence MacSwiney; pamphlet seeking subscriptions for enclosing the Republican graves in Mount St Lawrence Cemetery; flyer The Whole Truth highlighting the ill treatment of George Gilmore in prison; flyers criticizing the Free State Army and Constitution; Instructions to Sinn Fein Cumainn Regarding Programme of Work, 1921-1922; Letter from General Smuts to Mr. E. de Valera, 4 August 1921; and a flyer entitled 1916-1922, juxtaposing the executions of 1916 with those by the Free State Government in 1922.

Flyers and pamphlets of Republican sentiment from the 1930s, as follows: Dáil Éireann manifesto; pamphlet on Kilmainham Jail and Sean Heuston; pamphlet containing the names of deceased members of 1st Battalion Old Dublin Brigade No. 1 Irish Volunteers, for the repose of whose souls Mass was held in the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, on 1 November 1936; pamphlet The Bishop of Galway on National Affairs; flyers promoting Mná na Poblachta (Women of the Republic), a breakaway organisation from Cumann na mBan; pamphlet The Fianna Heroes of 1916; flyer campaigning for the release of George Mooney from Mountjoy Prison following the release of Patrick McGuinness and Aidan Sweeney; pamphlet The Story of Cathal Brugha; and a pamphlet seeking funding for the erection at Glasnevin Cemetery of the Terrence Bellew McManus Memorial, which has lain at the workshop of the sculptors for 40 years.

Souvenir booklet of the unveiling ceremony of the Sean McDermott Memorial at Kiltyclogher on 12 May 1940. For a related letter originally inserted inside the booklet, see P2/2/1/60/4/5 (8).

Programme of a Gaelic football championship of Down v. Kerry in Croke Park on 25 September 1960.

This sub-series comprises in memoriam cards, cartoons, maps and wall calendars, many with political or republican undertones.

Mass cards, chiefly of members of the Daly and Dore families, deceased volunteers or those executed in 1916. Also a card celebrating the marriage of Denis McCullough and Agnes Ryan on 16 August 1916. Also two sympathy cards, probably attached to floral tributes at the time of the deaths of John Daly or Edward (Ned) Daly in 1916.

Pages extracted from books containing drawings and photographs mainly of the 1916 leaders, including Roger Casement, Thomas Clarke, Edward (Ned) Daly, John Daly, Thomas MacDonagh, William Pearse, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert and Sean Heuston. Also an image of the artist John Henry Foley (1818-1874) and of the Reverend Father Theobald Mathew.