Mise Éire

Details

Level of description

File

Date

c.1915-1923

Reference

18

Extent and medium

37 items; 25 cm x 20.5 cm; 17.5 cm x 13 cm; Black and white print

Scope and content

Photographic prints (stills) taken from 'Mise Éire' (1959), a documentary film on the Irish Revolution (1912-1923), directed by George Morrison. The prints were compiled by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. with a view to publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images: • A decorated tram in an army recruitment parade in Dublin during World War I. • Dublin Fusiliers seeking recruits in 1915. • James Connolly at O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral on 1 August 1915. • Pádraig Pearse at O’Donovan Rossa’s Funeral on 1 August 1915. • Irish Citizen Army on parade outside Croydon House, Fairview Park, Dublin. • Henry Street in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. • Crowds outside the destroyed GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin, following the Easter Rising. • Destroyed Liberty Hall, Dublin, following the Easter Rising. • Éamon de Valera’s election in the Clare by-election in 1917. • John Redmond and other attendees at the Irish Convention in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1917. • Signing the anti-conscription pledge in 1918. • Michael Collins in Newcastle West, County Limerick. August 1922. • Scenes during British raids in Dublin during the War of Independence in 1920. • The shooting of Seán Tracey on Talbot Street, Dublin, on 14 October 1920. • British troops installing a barricade outside City Hall, Dublin, in 1920. • General Tom Barry. • Tomás Mac Curtain. • Michael Collins in Armagh in 1921. • Orange men sitting around a bonfire in Northern Ireland. • Éamon de Valera addressing people on O’Connell Street, Dublin, 1922. • Michael Collins making a speech in College Green, Dublin, on 5 March 1922. • Gunmen firing shots interrupt a rally held by Michael Collins in Cork on 12 Mar. 1922. • Liam Mellows, Liam Lynch, Seán Mac Eoin, Gearóid O’Sullivan and Eoin O’Duffy in c.1922. • Bombardment of the Four Courts by Irish Free State artillery in June 1922. • The Four Courts in flames following the Free State bombardment in June 1922. • Scenes of destruction on O’Connell Street following battles at the start of the Civil War in July 1922. • IRA irregulars in Limerick in 1922.

General note

Some of the prints are ink-stamped on the reverse: James G. Maguire Studios, 8 South Anne Street, Dublin. This studio may have been responsible for the enlargements of the original prints.

Repository

Irish Capuchin Archives

Context

Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > 'The Capuchin Annual' > Photographic Collection > Photographic Features, Subjects and Articles

Rights

Rights

Copyright held by the respective institution. Contact the archive for reproduction permissions.

Related Items