Irish Independence Movement Scrapbooks, 1914-1929

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Summary

Title:
Irish Independence Movement Scrapbooks
Dates:
1914-1929
Abstract:
This collection is comprised of eleven scrapbooks containing articles regarding the Irish Independence Movement, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the establishment of the Irish Free State, the Irish Civil War, and the historical figures associated with these events, such as Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, and Winston Churchhill. The scrapbooks also contain photographs, prints, and postcards of scenes of Ireland, sometimes accompanied by a hand-written description of the scene, as well as one item of personal correspondence.
Extent:
3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
Language:
Materials in this collection are in English and Irish Gaelic.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Irish Independence Movement Scrapbooks (Collection 836). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection is comprised of eleven scrapbooks containing articles regarding the Irish Independence Movement, including the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the establishment of the Irish Free State, the Irish Civil War, and the many assassinations and executions of historical figures associated with these events (such as Michael Collins and Erskine Childers). The scrapbooks also contain photographs, prints, and postcards of scenes of Ireland, sometimes accompanied by a hand-written description of the scene. This collection also contains one piece of personal correspondence, to Mrs. Edmund Andrews in Chicago in 1922 from an address in Ireland (Scrapbook 3). Some of the important figures, organizations and events mentioned in the collection include: The Dail Eireann, David Lloyd George, Irish Republican Army (IRA), Sinn Fein, William T. Cosgrave, Eamon de Valéra, Kevin Barry, Lord Salisbury's Committee on the Rent Restriction Acts, Lord Edmund Talbot, Cardinal Logue, Father O'Flanagan, Irish Home Rule Bill, Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, Mary and Terrence MacSwiney, Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Sir James Craig, Erskine Childers, William Hard (journalist), Amos Pinchot, Cathal Brugha, Mrs. Mary O' Callaghan, Sean T. Etchingham, Senator Robert La Follette, Prof. John Mac Neill, Viscout Morley, Earl of Dunraven, Liam Mellowes, George Gavan Duffy, Eamon J. Duggan, Sir Dawson Bates, Desmond Fitzgerald, John Steele (journalist), Count and Countess Plunkett, Eoin O'Duffy, Gen. Richard Mulcahy, Lord Birkenhead, Kitty Kiernan, Sir Henry Wilson, Winston Churchhill, Austin Chamberlain, Countess Constance Markievicz, Sean McKeown, Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Rory O'Connor, Oscar Traynor, Harry Boland, Red Cross, Royal Hibernian Military School, Exhibition of Old Irish Art, Irish Historical Theater, Daniel Shinnock, Sir William Orpen, R. A., Aonach Tailtean Athletic Competition, Railway Bill, Lord Curzon, Christie Bryns, Alick McCabe, Dr. McCartan, Philip Cosgrove, Kevin O'Higgins, Maude Gonne-McBride and son Sean McBride, P. O'Maille, Lord Glenavy, Lord Londonderry, Lord Birkenhead, Stanley Baldwin, General O'Duffy, Lord Abbot of Mountmellary, Prof. Timothy A. Smiddy, John Redmond, Maj. General Liam Tobin, Rev. Dr. Dignan, Bishop of Clonfert, and others. The periodicals represented in this collection include both American and Irish newspapers: The Chicago Tribune, Freeman, The Daily News, The Sinn Feiner, The Weekly Irish Times, Boston Transcript, Irish Independent, The Globe, New York Evening Post, Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta Journal, "Saturday Night Women's Section" from a press in Toronto, Canada, The Chicago Daily News, The Chicago American, The Free Press, and An T'Oglac, the newspaper of the Irish Republican Army.

Biographical / historical:

The Anglo-Irish Treaty (The Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland) concluded the Irish War of Independence by establishing the Irish Free State. The Treaty was signed in London on December 6, 1921; however, it was opposed at the time by many members of the Irish Sinn Fein political party, including President of the Republic Eamon de Valera. The internal disagreement over the Treaty lead to the Irish Civil War (1922-3), as well as the long-term civil and political instability that accompanied it. Within Ireland, several newspapers of various political persuasions closely covered the events, as did newspapers in the United States, especially in cities with a large Irish-American population, such as Chicago and New York.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Pace, Jr., 1963.
Processing information:

Processed by Sara Torres in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2008.

Arrangement:

Periodical clippings, photographs, postcards and correspondence are arranged into scrapbooks.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Scrapbooks.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Sara Torres in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2008; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Prepared:
© 2008
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access and Notetab Pro; Date of source: Summer 2008; frontmatter gathered MARC Record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.

Access and use

Restrictions:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Irish Independence Movement Scrapbooks (Collection 836). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
AskLSC@library.ucla.edu
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