Irish War of Independence

The Annie O’Farrelly Papers at the National Library

March 3, 2015 · 9 comments

in Collections,Manuscripts

by Fiona Hughes, NLI Archival Student Annie O’Farrelly (or Áine Ní Fhaircheallaigh) is typical of many figures in Irish history and the revolutionary period.  Neither a household name nor a familiar face, she was, nevertheless, immersed in Republican activity in the early twentieth century.  This is demonstrable in her papers which can be accessed at the […]

Tagged as: Áine Ní Fhaircheallaigh, An Phoblacht, Annie O'Farrelly, Cumann na mBan, Ernie O'Malley, Fiona Hughes, IRA, Irish Civil War, Irish War of Independence, Kilmainham Jail, Republicanism

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It’s not all just books and letters: The Art Ó Bríain Papers at the National Library

December 19, 2014 · 1 comment

in Guest Bloggers,Manuscripts

By Oliver O’Hanlon, PhD Student Department of French and School of History, University College Cork. You never know what you might come across while researching in the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Ireland. I have already written an Irishman’s Diary in the Irish Times (14 October 2013) about how I found a lock […]

Tagged as: "Art Ó Briain", Dictionary of Irish Biography, Irish War of Independence, Irishman’s Diary, Lord Mayor of Cork, Manuscripts, Muriel MacSwiney, Oliver O'Hanlon, Owen McGee, Terence MacSwiney

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The Shemus Cartoon Collection

July 5, 2013 · 2 comments

in Digitisation,Guest Bloggers,Prints & Drawings

by Felix M. Larkin, vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s statutory Readers Advisory Committee. His book Terror and Discord: The Shemus Cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal, 1920–1924 was published by A&A Farmar in 2009 In December 2006 the National Library of Ireland acquired some 250 original drawings of the Shemus cartoons […]

Tagged as: Anglo-Irish Treaty, Cartoons, David Lloyd George, Eamon de Valera, Ernest Forbes, Ernest Forbes Holgate, Erskine Childers, Felix M. Larkin, Freeman's Journal, Irish War of Independence, Martin Fitzgerald, Prints and Drawings, R. Hamilton Edwards, Shemus, Shemus Cartoon Collection, Shemus Cartoons, Sir Edward Carson, Sir Hamar Greenwood, Sir James Craig, Terror and Discord

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