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election leaflet / An Appeal to the Women of Ireland

Printed Electioneering Handbill, 1918. Folder. Sinn Féin propaganda. "An Appeal to the Women of Ireland".

 

newspaper / The Irish Citizen, 19 June 1915

Copy of "The Irish Citizen", Vol. 4, No. 5, 19 June 1915.

 

letter / Countess Markievicz, 1907

Letter of Countess Markievicz, 2 December 1907, as newspaper article, concerning Female Suffrage.

 

bag / Suffragette Movement, 1914

Suffragette Propaganda c. 1914. Paper bag with slogan "Votes for Women" and "Irishwomen's Franchise League" printed on it.

 

photograph / Countess Markievicz, 1912

Autographed photograph of Countess Markievicz as Joan of Arc, in one of the Tableaux Vivants in the Daffodil Fete held in aid of the Women's Suffrage Movement in March, 1912.

 

photograph / Markievicz / Houston, 1912

Photograph print of Countess Markievicz as Joan of Arc with Miss Kathleen Houston in one of the Tableaux Vivants in the Daffodil Fete held in aid of the Women's Suffrage Movement in March, 1912. Markievicz made the armour herself. Houston had then just been released from prison, where she was...

 

play / Women, Ideals and the Nation / The Dilettante, 1909

Note book - manuscript, of Countess Markievicz. Part of original manuscript of her first lecture, 'Women, Ideals and the Nation' - to Irish Students' Literary Society, 1909, later printed, and rough draft of Count Markievicz's. 'The Dilettante' (play) in his own hand.

 

lecture / Women, Ideals and the Nation, 1909

Countess Markievicz's notebook. Conclusion of above lecture ('Women, Ideals and the Nation'), 1909, cf. EW. 919(d).

 

notebook / Criticism of Irish Women's Franchise League

Countess Markievicz's notebook. 'Criticism of Irish Women's Franchise League' etc., about 1909-1910.

 

photograph / Sheehy Skeffington, 1912

Portrait photograph, of Francis Sheehy Skeffington and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. Taken in August 1912, at the height of the Votes for Women movement in Ireland.

 

pamphlet / War and Feminism

Photostat copy of pamphlet: 'War and Feminism', by Francis Sheehy Skeffington. Reprinted from "The Irish Citizen". Also included are photostat copies of an Albert Hall souvenir 'Indomitable Courage of Dublin Masters', November 1913, and a souvenir programme of the 'Great Albert Hall Rally for...

 

paper bag / Irishwomen's Franchise League, 1914

Irish Suffragette Movement propaganda object - brown paper with inscription in green print, 'Votes for Women'. Irishwomen's Franchise League, circa 1914.

 

booklet / A Call to the Women of Ireland

Booklet 'A Call to the Women of Ireland' by Constance de Markievicz, 1918. 16 pp. Inscribed on title page by Stanislaus de Markievicz to Mr. Liam S. Gogan, Easter 1943.

 

handbill / Irish Women Prisoners

Resolution. Release the Prisoners, 1918. Quarto sheet giving text of resolution of the Irish Women's Franchise League protesting the jailing of Countess Markievicz, Mrs. Kathleen Clarke, and Madame MacBride (Maud Gonne).

 

photograph / Suffragettes, Mountjoy Jail, 1914

(Cashman 2) Suffragettes, meeting outside Mountjoy Jail, 3 May 1914. With inset of Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington.

 

newspaper / Daily Telegraph, 10 March 1914

Daily Telegraph newspaper, 10 March 1914. Pages 7,8,13,14 including long account of debate, on Home Rule Bill, in English House of Commons; photographs of Asquith, Bonar Law, Carson and Redmond; an account of a film on the 4th. (Dungannon) Battalion of the Tyrone Regiment (U.V.F.); and an account...

 

pin badge / Votes for Women, 1908-1916

Badge worn by Francis Sheehy Skeffington and taken from his coat after his death in 1916. Metal, covered celluloid white, with "Votes for Women I.W.F.L." in green.