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Title: Irish Independence Movement Scrapbooks
Date (inclusive): 1914-1929
Collection number: 836
Extent:
3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
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.
Language: Materials in this collection are in
English and Irish Gaelic.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
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.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Pace, Jr., 1963.
Processed by Sara Torres in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli,
2008.
[Identification of item], Irish Independence Movement Scrapbooks (Collection 836). Department of Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233751
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.
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, B
oston 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.
Periodical clippings, photographs, postcards and correspondence are arranged into scrapbooks.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Ireland--History, 1910-21.
Ireland--History--Civil War, 1922-23.
Ireland--History, 1922- .
Scrapbooks.