Sinn Féin Circular Volume

A bound volume containing original Sinn Féin circulars and printed ephemera. Most of the material dates from 1918 to 1920. The volume includes material relating to the conscription crisis, the 1918 General Election, the Irish Republican Prisoners’ Dependents’ Fund, Sinn Féin organisational matters and party finances, the local elections of 1920, the operation of the Dáil Courts, arbitration in local land disputes, and the Irish Self-Determination League. The volume has extensive manuscript annot

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Level of description
Subseries
Date
1918-1924
Reference
32
Extent and medium
264 pp; 37 cm x 25.5 cm; typescript, manuscript, printed and newspaper clipping
Scope and content
A bound volume containing original Sinn Féin circulars and printed ephemera. Most of the material dates from 1918 to 1920. The volume includes material relating to the conscription crisis, the 1918 General Election, the Irish Republican Prisoners’ Dependents’ Fund, Sinn Féin organisational matters and party finances, the local elections of 1920, the operation of the Dáil Courts, arbitration in local land disputes, and the Irish Self-Determination League. The volume has extensive manuscript annotations. Many of the circulars were issued by senior Sinn Féin committee members including Thomas Kelly, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, and Pádraig Ó Caoimh. Some later ephemera and newspaper clippings with a provenance to Pádraig Ó Caoimh are also inserted into the volume.
Physical characteristics
The volume binding has disintegrated, and the text block is exposed. There are also extensive fold marks to the covers and to many of the internal pages. Very careful handling of the volume is required.
General note
For biographical information on Thomas Kelly (1868-1942) see https://www.dib.ie/biography/kelly-thomas-a4468
General note
For biographical information on Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) see https://www.dib.ie/biography/skeffington-johanna-hanna-sheehy-a8106
General note
For biographical information on Pádraig Ó Caoimh (1897-1964) see https://www.dib.ie/biography/o-caoimh-padraig-paddy-okeeffe-a6290
Repository
Irish Capuchin Archives
Context
Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

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  • amonged the pillars of English power in Ireland , yet even with such terrible handicaps they killed the
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and has struck at the Simm Fein organisation under practically unanimous Ireland , and England's will sh. I generations England's will in Ireland is opposed by a people , and that that declaration of war , would be accepted . Faced by the invincible determination of is the same enemy she has faced for seven centuries , and that enemy is England . For the first time for When the English Government decided to conscript Ireland , England seeks to confuse the issue by the the men of Ireland they did not foresee that their action would be taken as a declaration of war on the Irish be broken and Ireland's honour thereby upheld . preience that Ireland's attitude is due to a German plot , freedom everywhere else in the world and slavery , in that pretence . The enemy Ireland has to face to-day the Irish people to die at home rather than fight for

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icopy . ) ( Sanitary Contractor ) , do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows I , CHARLES KENNY , of a Ulster Terrace , North Strand , in the county of the city of Dublin . To-v. I , CHARLES KENNY , of a Ulster-Terrace , North Sir to , wit .

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