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1916 Print Series - Complete set of all 3 street scenes
Complete set of 3 street scenes from 1916 Portraits and Lives. €270.
Complete set of prints of all 3 street scenes featured in the book 1916 Portraits and Lives. The scenes include a scene of...
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Richard O'Carroll - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Richard O’Carroll (1876–1916), a bricklayer born in Dublin’s north inner city, was general secretary of the bricklayers’ trade union and leader of the Labour Party members of Dublin Corporation. A lieutenant in the Irish Volunteers, he...
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Harry Clarke Cotton Bag
A cotton tote bag featuring an allegorical depiction of Ireland as a woman, by the world-renowned stained glass artist and illustrator Harry Clarke (1889-1931). It is taken from the Memorial Records (1914-1918), which was illustrated...
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1916 Print Series - Edward Daly
Prints by David Rooney
Edward Daly (1891–1916) was born in Limerick city to a strongly republican family, and worked as a clerk in Dublin. A member of the IRB and commandant of the 1st battalion...
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Winifred Carney - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Winifred Carney (1887–1943), was born in Bangor, Co. Down, and reared in Belfast. She was involved in socialist and suffragist movements in Belfast, and from 1912 served as secretary of the Irish Textile Workers' Union. She...
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Seán Mac Diarmada - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Seán Mac Diarmada (MacDermott) (1883–1916), born near Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim, was the ‘master machinist’ of the Easter rising, who organised a vast underground network of insurrectionists by recruiting men into the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood and...
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1916 Print Series - John Edward Redmond
Prints by David Rooney
John Edward Redmond (1856–1918), was born in Dublin and reared mostly in Co. Wexford. Elected nationalist MP for New Ross in 1881, he was the leading figure among those who stayed...
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1916 Print Series - Patrick Pearse
Prints by David Rooney
Patrick Henry Pearse (1879–1916), was born in Dublin, the son of an English stone carver and sculptor. A keen Gaelic Leaguer, he edited An Claidheamh Soluis (1903–9) and in 1908 founded...
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Thomas Kent - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Thomas Kent (1865–1916), from a farming family near Fermoy, Co. Cork, was involved in land agitation, the Gaelic League, and the Irish Volunteers. In May 1916 he and other family members fought a gun battle with...
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1916 Print Series - Peter Macken
Prints by David Rooney
Peter (Peadar) Macken (1878–1916), was born in Dublin and worked as a house painter. A committed nationalist, he joined the IRB, the Gaelic League, Sinn Féin and the Irish Volunteers. Active...
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Dublin 1756 by John Rocque
Map Dublin 1756 by John Rocque, 4 sheets joined composite size 92 X 61 cm, B&W/greyscale.
Delivery note: Collection is recommended.
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Michael O'Hanrahan - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Michael O’Hanrahan (1877–1916), born in New Ross, Co. Wexford, and reared in Carlow town, was a journalist and novelist. Active in the Gaelic League, he worked with an Irish-language printer and on the Irish Volunteers headquarters...
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John Rocque Bookmarks
Three bookmarks with three designs show details of the curving streets of Dublin city and sailboats in the River Liffey from the magnificent hand-drawn 'Map of Dublin' by John Rocque, drawn in 1773 with later...
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1916 Print Series - Sean Connolly
Prints by David Rooney
Sean Connolly (1882–1916) was the son of a Dublin seaman turned docker. A close friend of writer Sean O’Casey, he acted in the Abbey Theatre and worked as a clerk with...
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Sir Roger Casement - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Sir Roger Casement (1864–1916), born in Dublin, son of a retired British army officer, and educated in Ballymena. In 1892 he joined the British consular service in Africa and reported on the abuse of native workers...
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Thomas MacDonagh - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Thomas MacDonagh (1878–1916), born in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, where his parents were both teachers, was a teacher, journalist and university lecturer, who wrote poetry, plays and literary criticism. Commandant of the Irish Volunteers’ Dublin Brigade, during...
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1916 Print Series - Mary Perolz
Prints by David Rooney
Mary Perolz (1874–1950), daughter of a Protestant printer of French Huguenot origin and a Catholic mother, was prominent in Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army. Shadowed by detectives, she...
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1916 Print Series - Thomas MacDonagh
Prints by David Rooney
Thomas MacDonagh (1878–1916), born in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, where his parents were both teachers, was a teacher, journalist and university lecturer, who wrote poetry, plays and literary criticism. Commandant of the...
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Kathleen Lynn - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Kathleen Lynn (1874–1955), a clergyman’s daughter from Co. Mayo, was a medical doctor devoted to services for the poor, a woman’s suffragist and separatist. Chief medical officer of the Irish Citizen Army, during the Easter rising...
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1916 Print Series - Eoin MacNeill
Prints by David Rooney
Eoin MacNeill (1867–1945), from the Glens of Antrim, was an eminent Gaelic scholar and UCD professor. Envisioning an armed volunteer force to pressurise for implementation of home rule, he was principal...
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Linen bag: A to U alphabet
The Old Irish alphabet contains just the letters A to U. The letters on this bag appear in medieval Irish manuscripts in the collections of the Royal Irish Academy.
Made in Ireland.
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Michael Joseph O'Rahilly - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Michael Joseph O’Rahilly (‘The O’Rahilly’) (1875–1916), was born at Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, son of a businessman and magistrate. A prominent member of the Gaelic League and Sinn Féin, he helped found the Irish Volunteers in 1913...
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Knowth Cotton Tote Bag
This cotton tote bag pictures an archaeological drawing of the 5000 year-old ceremonial flint macehead, uncovered from 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 - John Bowen-Colthurst
Prints by David Rooney
John Bowen-Colthurst (1880–1965) was a Cork-born British army officer who served in South Africa, India and in France during the first world war (when he was wounded leading an unauthorised frontal...
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Cornelius Colbert - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
Cornelius ‘Con’ Colbert (1888–1916) was a small farmer’s son from near Athea, Co. Limerick. Working as a clerk in a Dublin bakery, he was a military drill instructor in Na Fianna Éireann, St Enda’s school and...
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