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Francis Sheehy-Skeffington - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878–1916), was born in Bailieborough, Co. Cavan, and reared in Downpatrick, Co. Down. After graduating from UCD (1902), he worked as a freelance journalist in Dublin and became well-known for his pacifism, feminism and...
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1916 Print Series - Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
Prints by David Rooney
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878–1916), was born in Bailieborough, Co. Cavan, and reared in Downpatrick, Co. Down. After graduating from UCD (1902), he worked as a freelance journalist in Dublin and became well-known...
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1916 Print Series - Éamon de Valera
Prints by David Rooney
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...
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Seán Heuston - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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 of rifles from the Asgard at Howth...
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1916 Print Series - John Maxwell
Prints by David Rooney
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...
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1916 Print Series - Printing the Proclamation
Prints by David Rooney
Scene depicting the printing of the proclamation.
- The scene is lithograph printed onto 910x610 mm (image area 670x452mm) cuts of uncoated Munken Lynx rough paper (170 g/m2), signed and numbered by ...
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Helena Molony - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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 the Irish Citizen Army’s women’s...
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Exercise Book - Knowth Mace Head
This blank, unlined copybook pictures an archaeological drawing of the 5000 year-old ceremonial flint macehead, discovered in the burial ground of Knowth, Co. Meath, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Archaeological excavations began a Knowth in...
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1916 Print Series - Sir Ivor Churchill Guest
Prints by David Rooney
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....
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Elizabeth O'Farrell - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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 in the GPO during Easter...
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Margaret Skinnider - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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. During Easter week she carried...
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1916 Print Series - Francis Shaw
Prints by David Rooney
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...
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1916 Print Series - Michael Collins
Prints by David Rooney
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...
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Bulmer Hobson - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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, a republican scout movement. A...
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1916 Print Series - Countess Constance Markievicz
Prints by David Rooney
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,...
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1916 Print Series - Complete set of all 42 portraits
Complete set of all 42 portraits from 1916 Portraits and Lives. €1900.
Complete set of prints featuring all 42 individual portraits from the book 1916 Portraits and Lives. The portraits include: Augustine Birrell, Winifred Carney,...
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Sir Matthew Nathan - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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, he sought to conciliate...
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Harry Clarke Bookmarks
Three bookmarks with three separate designs feature compositions by the world-renowned stained glass artist and illustrator Harry Clarke (1889-1931). They are taken from the Memorial Records (1914-1918), which was illustrated by Clarke and compiled by...
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1916 Print Series - Helen Gifford
Prints by David Rooney
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....
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Augustine Birrell - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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, supporting home rule. He resisted...
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Éamonn Ceannt - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Éamonn Ceannt (1881–1916), was born in Glenamaddy, Co. Galway, the son of an RIC man. He worked as a clerk in Dublin Corporation, and was a keen Gaelic Leaguer and a founder of the Dublin Pipers’...
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1916 Print Series - Desmond Ryan
Prints by David Rooney
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...
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1916 Print Series - Joseph Mary Plunkett
Prints by David Rooney
Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887–1916), born to a wealthy Dublin family, was a poet and journalist. Interested in military strategy and tactics, he was instrumental in preparing the detailed plans for the...
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Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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 in West Africa. Appointed chief...
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1916 Print Series - Michael Mallin
Prints by David Rooney
Michael Mallin (1874–1916), was born in the Liberties in Dublin. Aged 15, he joined the British army as a drummer boy and served for 12 years, mostly in India, becoming a...
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