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Butterfly Bookmarks
Three bookmarks with three illustrations of Chinese butterflies by Cork-born Edward Donovan. The drawings are reproduced from his 1798 work, An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China.
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1916 Print Series - Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone
Prints by David Rooney
Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone (1863–1937), son of a barrister and judge from Co. Donegal, played cricket and rugby for TCD, was a champion boxer and fencer, and fought as a British army officer...
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Linen bag: Curlew by Paula McGloin (sea green)
Detail taken from an illustration commissioned for a limited edition book, Our future will become the past of other women by Eavan Boland, MRIA, published by the Royal Irish Academy to mark the one-hundreth anniversary of...
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Desmond Ryan - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Desmond Ryan (1893–1964), London-born son of a radical Irish journalist, was one of the first forty students at St Enda’s, the progressive, Irish-language school founded by Patrick Pearse. He worked as Pearse’s secretary, assisted in preparations...
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Irish Texts Society Membership
Subscription for membership to the Irish Texts Society.
What happens to your data if you buy a subscription:
The Irish Texts Society is the Data Controller of ITS members’ data. The Academy is the data...
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1916 Print Series - Augustine Birrell
Prints by David Rooney
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933), was born near Liverpool, and elected a Liberal MP in 1889. In January 1907 he became chief secretary for Ireland, and took a constructive approach to Irish problems,...
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Helen Gifford - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Helen Gifford (Donnelly) (1880–1971), daughter of a Dublin solicitor, was active with her five sisters in feminist and separatist organisations, and was also involved in land agitation and the labour movement. She posed as Jim Larkin’s...
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Notebook: Curlew by Paula McGloin
Detail taken from an illustration commissioned for a limited edition book, Our future will become the past of other women by Eavan Boland, MRIA, published by the Royal Irish Academy to mark the one-hundreth anniversary...
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1916 Print Series - Sir Matthew Nathan
Prints by David Rooney
Sir Matthew Nathan (1862–1939), was born in London, and served with the Royal Engineers and in various imperial administrative positions before becoming under secretary for Ireland in October 1914. Like Birrell,...
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1916 Print Series - Nelson's Pillar
Prints by David Rooney
View of street vendors near O’Connell Street with Nelson’s pillar in the background.
- The scene is lithograph printed onto 910x610 mm (image area 670x452mm) cuts of uncoated Munken Lynx rough paper ...
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Countess Constance Markievicz - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Countess Constance Markievicz (1868–1927), was born in London, the daughter of Sir Henry Gore-Booth of Lissadell, Co. Sligo. Breaking with her Ascendancy background, she joined Sinn Féin and Inghinidhe na hÉireann, and co-founded Na Fianna Éireann...
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Charles Brooking Bookmarks
This is a set of three bookmarks featuring topographies of Dublin drawn in 1728 by Charles Brooking. These prospects of the old city present illustrations of landmark sites such as the Corn Market building, Dr...
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1916 Print Series - Bulmer Hobson
Prints by David Rooney
Bulmer Hobson (1883–1969), was born into a Quaker family in Belfast. Attracted to Irish nationalism, he worked as an organiser and journalist. In 1909 he and Constance Markievicz founded Fianna Éireann,...
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Michael Collins - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Michael Collins (1890–1922), born in Co. Cork, he was a staff captain in the GPO in 1916, and emerged as a leading figure during his internment in Frongoch camp. As the Director of Organisation with the...
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Francis Shaw - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Francis Shaw (1907–70), was born in Mullingar and educated there and in Dublin. In 1924 he joined the Jesuits, and while studying in Germany in the 1930s developed an aversion to totalitarian movements and their utopian...
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1916 Print Series - Margaret Skinnider
Prints by David Rooney
Margaret Skinnider (1893–1971) was a Glasgow-born mathematics teacher of Co. Monaghan extraction. Joining the Irish Citizen Army on a Dublin visit, she returned to assist in preparations for the Easter rising....
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1916 Print Series - Elizabeth O'Farrell
Prints by David Rooney
Elizabeth O'Farrell (1884–1957), was born in Dublin and worked as a midwife at Holles Street hospital. A committed trade unionist, she was also involved in nationalist and suffragist organisations. She served...
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Sir Ivor Churchill Guest - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Sir Ivor Churchill Guest (1873–1939), 1st Viscount Wimborne, was born in London. He served in the Boer War and became a Conservative MP in 1900, switching to the Liberals in 1906. A supporter of home rule,...
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Notebook: Pheasant by Paula McGloin
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Detail taken from an illustration commissioned for a limited edition book, Our future will become the past of other women by Eavan Boland, MRIA, published by the Royal Irish Academy...
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1916 Print Series - Helena Molony
Prints by David Rooney
Helena Molony (1883–1967) was a grocer’s daughter from Dublin’s north city-centre market district. Active in the feminist and separatist movements, she was an Abbey Theatre actress, trade union official, secretary of...
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1916 Print Series - Reading the Proclamation
Prints by David Rooney
Scene of Patrick Pearse reading the proclamation in front of the General Post Office (GPO).
- The scene is lithograph printed onto 910x610 mm (image area 670x452mm) cuts of uncoated Munken Lynx ...
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John Maxwell - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
John Maxwell (1859–1929) was a British army officer who spent most of his career in Egypt, and also supervised the concentration camps in Pretoria during the Boer war. He was British commander in Egypt when it...
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Exercise Book - Harry Clarke
This blank, unlined copybook pictures an imaginative composition by the world-renowned stained glass artist and illustrator Harry Clarke (1889-1931). The original is in the Memorial Records (1914-1918), which was illustrated by Clarke and compiled by...
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1916 Print Series - Seán Heuston
Prints by David Rooney
Seán (John J.) Heuston (1891–1916), was born in Dublin and worked as a clerk with the Great Southern and Western Railway Company. He led the Fianna Éireann contingent that unloaded hundreds...
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Éamon de Valera - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Éamon de Valera (1882–1975), was born in New York, and from 1885 reared in Bruree, Co. Clare. Educated at Blackrock College and UCD, he became a mathematics teacher. Drawn to the Gaelic League, he also joined...
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