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manuscript / Irish War News / The Provisional Government to the Citizens of Dublin

Manuscript written by Patrick Pearse. Text of Patrick Pearse’s statement for the Irish War News. Bulletin written by Pearse in the General Post Office early on Tuesday morning, 25th April 1916, and subsequently published by Joseph M. Stanley on page 4 of the Irish War News of the same day. Pearse...

manuscript / irish War News / The Provisional Government to the Citizens of Dublin

Manuscript written by Patrick Pearse. Headed ‘The Provisional Government to the Citizens of Dublin’. Bulletin issued by Pearse from the G.P.O. late on Tuesday 25th or early on Wednesday 26th April 1916. Text subsequently published by Joseph M. Stanley in the form of a broadside. Written in copying...

newsheet / Irish War News, 1916

Copy of Irish War News. Printed by Joseph M. Stanley and his printing staff at a commandeered printing works at Halston Street, Dublin, early on Tuesday morning, 25th April 1916. Issued and sold to the public within the British military cordon in the centre of the city. Ref. J.J. Bouch, ‘The War...