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Linen bag: Curlew by Paula McGloin (pink)
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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John Edward Redmond - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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 loyal to Parnell in the...
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The City of Dublin, 1846 Notebook
This woodcut illustration of Dublin was offered free to subscribers of the Illustrated London News in June, 1846. The viewpoint is from over the south-east corner of St Stephen’s Green, looking north, as far west...
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1916 Print Series - Winifred Carney
Prints by David Rooney
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...
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Edward Daly - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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 Irish Volunteers, he commanded the...
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James Connolly - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
James Connolly (1868–1916) was born to Irish working-class parents in Edinburgh, Scotland. A socialist activist, theorist and polemicist in Dublin, Belfast and America, he was an ITGWU organiser, a founder of the Irish Labour Party, and...
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1916 Print Series - Richard O'Carroll
Prints by David Rooney
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...
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1916 Print Series - Éamonn Ceannt
Prints by David Rooney
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...
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Michael Mallin - 1916 Colour Edition Print Series
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 strong anti-imperialist. He returned to...
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