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photograph / Terence Mac Swiney
Photograph of Terence Mac Swiney purchased in America by Mr P.J. Twamley. Such photographs were very widely sold all over America.
photograph / British armoured car, Mountjoy, 1920
Photograph of a British armoured car bearing upon it an inscription 'Up Sinn Féin'. No date. This photograph is from a larger version, which shows the car is outside Mountjoy Prison, with a crowd outside the entrance further down the street. Probably dates to the Mountjoy Hunger Strikes of April...
manuscript / I love each sod of Irish earth, Mountjoy, c.1921
Original manuscript poem composed by James Byrne in Mountjoy on the fourth day of his hunger strike, probably around 1921. Record of the late James Byrne, Knockaragh, Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. Former pupil of Rathvilly Boys' Natioanl School. He worked as grocer's assistant in Gilligan's, 70 Ballybough...
photograph / Archbishop Mannix / MacSwiney Funeral, 1920
Photograph of Archbishop Mannix at the MacSwiney funeral in London. Archbishop Mannix leaving Southwark Cathedral, London, following the services for the late Terence Mac Swiney, Lord Mayor of Cork (Mannix in Centre). October 1920. Photograph by Underwood and Underwood, New York.
photograph / Mountjoy, Hunger Strike, 1920
(Cashman 47) Hunger Strike, 1920. Photograph of British armoured car and soldiers outside Mountjoy Prison, 1920 - Republican prisoners' hunger strike.
photograph / Mountjoy Hunger Strike, 1920
(Cashman 128) Hunger Strike 1920. Photograph of a tank outside Mountjoy Jail during the hunger strike, 1920.
prison autograph album / Wormwood Scrubs Hunger Strikers, 1920
Autograph album, 1920, containing signatures of Wormwood Scrubs Hunger Strikers inter alios. Book was kept by Nurse R. Devonshire (sister of donor) at St. James Infirmary, Belham where the hunger strikers were treated.
commemorative postcard / Terence MacSwiney
Printed commemorative postcard with photograph of Terence MacSwiney. Underneath photograph is printed: 'Terence MacSwiney. R.I.P. / Lord Mayor of Cork'.
newspaper article / Daily Sketch / Terence MacSwiney, 1920
Newspaper cutting from the Daily Sketch. Regarding Terence MacSwiney funeral. 29th October 1920.
newspaper article / New York Times / Terence MacSwiney, 1920
Newspaper cutting from The New York Times. Regarding Terence MacSwiney funeral. 14th November 1920.
photograph / Cathal O'Shannon, Hunger Strike, 1920
Photograph, 1920 Hunger Strike. Cathal O'Shannon in bed in the Mater Hospital, talking to Fr Augustine OSFC. 13 by 19 inches.
photograph / Mountjoy, Hunger Strike, 1920
(Cashman 49) Hunger Strike, 1920. Photograph of Republican sympathisers, including Madame Despard, outside Mountjoy Jail during the hunger strike of 1920.
photograph / Terence MacSwiney, funeral, 1920
(Cashman 80) Terence MacSwiney. Photograph of clergy, including Father Albert, at the funeral of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, Cork City, 1920.
photograph / Terence MacSwiney Funeral, 1920
(Cashman 81) Terence MacSwiney. Photograph of funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney passing through Cork.
photograph / Terence Mac Swiney, lying-in-state, Cork, 1920
(Cashman 78) Terence Mac Swiney. Photograph of the lying-in-state of Terence Mac Swiney, Cork City Hall, 1920.