Dr. Collection

IE/AL/KL/1/7 25 June 1910 1 item; 2pp

Empty envelope addressed to ‘Miss M. ffrench Mullen, 9 Belgrave Road, , , .’ A list of names and numbers is written on the back of the envelope.

IE/AL/KL/1/14 30 April 1916 1 item

Handwritten last will and testament of . ‘I leave to my husband Casimir de Markievicz the sum of £100 pounds, to my stepson Stanislas de Markievicz the sum of £100 to Bessie Lynch who lived with me £25. Everything else I possess to my daughter, Medb Alys de Markievicz.’ Michael Mallin and Madeleine ffrench Mullen witnessed it. [Provenance: Given by Dr. Lynn, 10 September 1952].

IE/AL/KL/1/28 12 August 1916 1 item; 2pp

Handwritten letter from Constance Markievicz, Holloway Jail to Madeleine ffrench Mullen. Constance Markievicz thanks her for the present and tells her ‘Mrs. Clarke is wonderful, with her bad health, its marvellous how she sticks it out at all. Give Kathleen and Emer my love and thank Emer for fags she sent me. I hope K is well; I heard that she was back from her holiday, but not going about much. I am all right again, gone up in weight and all the better for my enforced rest! …now goodbye much love to you and yours and my soldier girls.’

IE/AL/KL/1/30/1-2 7 November 1916 2 items

Envelope and handwritten letter from Eva Gore Booth, 33 Fitzroy, Square, to Dr. Lynn and Madeleine ffrench Mullen. The letter relates to her visits to Constance Markievicz in prison. Countess Markievicz wishes to send her love to a number of friends and hopes Andy Dunn and Mr. Nugent win something at the Feis or anywhere for their music. She is also anxious to receive any relics of Easter Week, Eva Gore Booth therefore asks ‘Could you tell “the boys” this, especially she wants a stamp if possible kept for her.’ Eva also writes that Countess Markievicz is now working in the kitchens, ‘she got awfully tired and rather seedy with all that sitting still sewing.’ The governor remarked that “she’s very energetic!!” IE/AL/KL/1/34 [c. 1916] 1 item; 2pp

Handwritten draft of a letter or minutes from a meting written on Irish Transport and General Workers Union headed paper. It mentions that ‘Prior to Easter Week there existed in the premises of a workroom run in connection with the Cooperative Society’s Drapery Shop attached to the Transport Workers Union. During the occupation by the military our workrooms were dismantled and the machines smashed. Since Easter Week the girls employed in the workroom have been idle and we now propose restarting this branch of our activities immediately pending rebuilding operations and subsequent reopening of the shop. In order to accomplish this we would require a grant to procure machines, materials etc. and to pay the wages which have always been calculated on a fair trade basis. We desire the money to be placed to the credit of the Irish Women Workers’ Union and we here by append a list of its officers. President Countess M[Markievicz] Vice President . Acting General Secretary Miss Molony. Members of Committee Mary Geraghty, T. Sheen, Miss Perolz etc. In the unavoidable absence of Miss Molony, Dr. Lynn and Miss ffrench Mullen were deputed to call on Mr. Murphy. In the course of a [ill.] interview a short account of our work done and plans for the future were set before him and met with his cordial approval and he assured our representations that the necessary funds to finance these schemes would be forthcoming on application to the National Aid Association.'

IE/AL/KL/1/41 1916 1 item

Empty mourning envelope addressed to ‘Miss ffrench Mullen, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.’

IE/AL/KL/1/42/1-2 6 January 1917 2 items

Handwritten envelope and letter from May Jones, 51 Queen’s Road, Richmond, Surrey to Dr. Lynn and Madeleine ffrench Mullen. She thanks both of them for their presents. ‘Madeleine’s cake arrived back in Dublin just before I left. Surely “they expected to find some important clue to a very deep laid scheme hidden in the cake, for it was literally in crumbs!’ She also mentions that ‘it seems ages since I was over, but I suppose it is good that some of us should be here; and though it is difficult to know what good can be done here, still I suppose a soldier’s duty is to do his best in whatever position he’s placed. The first thing will be a raffle for diamond earrings for the fund. Don’t forget that £50; but keep it private.’

IE/AL/KL/1/45 20 April 1917 1 item; 2pp

Postcard with the following autographs ‘Kathleen Clarke, Bríd Ní Foghludha, Kathleen F. Lynn, , Mrs. Plunkett, Caitlín de Brún, Nelly O’Ryan, M. ffrench Mullen, Nell Humphreys.’

IE/AL/KL/1/51 9 July 1917 1 item; 2pp

Handwritten letter from , Old Ground Hotel, Ennis to Dr. Lynn, 9 Belgrave Road, Rathmines, Dublin. He writes ‘the bustle of an election contest is unfavourable to correspondence. Otherwise I would have written to say how pleased I was to hear of your coming to Mullingar next Sunday; and how sorry to hear of Miss ffrench Mullen’s breakdown. For a good while I have feared this. Her friends should insist upon her taking a long and complete rest. Otherwise something may happen which no one who knows her can bear think of. I told her brother so here last night. Subject to the uncertainty inseparable from popular decisions I believe we are going to have a bigger victory than in North Roscommon. My movements after that are not fully fixed, and I will try to see you before Sunday. If impossible, I will write to you.’

IE/AL/KL/1/53 15 July 1917 1 item; 1p

Autographs of people who attended the ‘banquet in Mullingar’, The Greville Arms Hotel, Mullingar. The names include , Kathleen Lynn, Alice Ginnell, Éamon de Valera, , Madeleine ffrench Mullen, Laurence Ginnell.

IE/AL/KL/1/77 30 November 1918 1 item; 2pp

Handwritten postcard from Bob (Robert) Brennan, Gloucester Jail to Dr. Lynn and Madeleine ffrench Mullen. He thanks them for their card and good wishes. ‘We are a very happy family here with eight M.P.’s and five ordinary folk.’

IE/AL/KL/1/79/1-2 December 1918 2 items

Postcard from Constance Markievicz and Kathleen Clarke, Holloway Jail to Madeleine ffrench Mullen.

IE/AL/KL/1/89 May 1919 1 item

Calling card for Count and Countess Plunkett, 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. A handwritten note on it reads ’Dr. K. Lynn and Miss ffrench Mullen to meet delegates from U.S.A. Seanchus 12th May, Monday 4.30 p.m. IE/AL/KL/1/98 11 January 1920 1 item; 4pp

‘The Cuala News’. The Cuala group consisted of James Dwyer; G.A. Daly; Mrs. Frances Ceannt; Kathleen Lynn; Madeleine ffrench Mullen; James MacDonagh; William Sears; Archibald Nicolls; Thomas O’Connor; Seán Doyle; Thomas Cullen; Robert Brennan; Mrs. Mary Josephine Mulcahy (formerly Miss Minnie Ryan); George Irvine.

IE/AL/KL/1/104/1-3 20 January 1921 3 items

Typed letter and information sent to Madeleine ffrench Mullen relating to the School Attendance Committee, Urban District of Rathmines and Rathgar, Dublin.

IE/AL/KL/1/105 25 January 1921 1 item; 2pp

Handwritten notes possibly by Madeleine ffrench Mullen on some children in St. Ultan’s.

IE/AL/KL/1/135/1-4 April 1925 4 items

Envelope and two handwritten letters from J.A. Kingston, Rockwell College, Cashel, Tipperary to Madeleine ffrench Mullen. The letters relate to securing work for W.J. Jewel. J.A. Kingston writes ‘I regret very much to say that I have no opportunity’ in finding him work. ‘If you think Mr. Jewel could come down here for a few weeks rest I am sure I would manage to put him up without much difficulty. Even if I had work to offer him, the people around here would treat him as an intruder and perhaps make his position uncomfortable.’ In the second letter he tells Madeleine ffrench Mullen that Mr. Jewel can come at any time. There is also a handwritten draft of a letter to Fr. Kingston (30 April 1925).

IE/AL/KL/1/136 3 May 1925 1 item; 4pp

Handwritten letter from John Clarke, c/o Revd. Dr. Welch, St. Mary’s R.C. Church, Cape Town, South Africa to Madeleine ffrench Mullen. He tells her that he thinks the library has a copy of the book she mentioned. He hopes to combine two of his publications and call it “Roman Fever”. He also recalls when he ‘returned from the West Indies in 1892 as a parson going to see a meeting near Mount Jerome called to demand the release of Irish prisoners at which your father spoke from a dray.’ IE/AL/KL/1/137 6 May 1925 1 item; 2pp

Handwritten draft of a letter from Madeleine ffrench Mullen possible to Mr. Jewel offering him the opportunity of spending a months holiday at Rockwell College.

IE/AL/KL/1/138 26 May 1925 1 item

Invitation card to Madeleine ffrench Mullen from the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, Dublin. The occasion was the canonisation of their foundress, Saint Madeleine Sophie.

IE/AL/KL/1/141 10 May 1927 1 item

Invitation card to Madeleine ffrench Mullen and friend to a conference in the Royal College of Surgeons by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

IE/AL/KL/1/148/1-2 21 December 1931 2 items

Handwritten letter from Stanislas Markievicz, Warsaw to Madeleine ffrench Mullen. He tells her that her Easter Week diary would be of great interest as would an intimate account of the strike and that the Treaty question would be most vital. He came across a pamphlet his father had published by the Publicity Department I.R.A. called The Responsibility (no.5). He tells her he is enclosing a copy of a photograph. The B&W photograph is of Countess Markievicz with her daughter Maeve and stepson Stanislas. The photograph is signed at the back by S.D. Markievicz ‘To Miss ffrench Mullen with deep sentiments of regards and appreciation from the young man in the picture!’.

IE/AL/KL/1/153 11 May 1938 1 item; 1p

Typed letter from Madeleine ffrench Mullen, secretary, St. Ultan’s Infant Hospital, 37 Charlemont Street, Dublin to P.J. Stuart, 59 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin. The letter is to introduce Brendan Sheridan who is anxious to get into the Tram Company as a junior clerk. IE/AL/KL/1/156 14 July 1943 1 item; 1p

Handwritten letter from Madeleine ffrench Mullen, 9 Belgrave Road, Dublin. She writes ‘I sign with pleasure enclosed beautiful postcard and am glad to find a father who hands on history to his child, I meet too many children who are hazy about 1916. I myself learnt my Irish history from my father who died before I was 15. R.I.P. Would you like Dr. Lynn’s autograph, she lives in no. 9 it is her house.’

IE/AL/KL/1/158 26 May 1944 1 item Memorial card for Madeleine ffrench Mullen.

IE/AL/KL/1/159 3 October 1944 1 item; 2pp

Handwritten letter from Dr. Lynn to Miss Myles regarding the death of Madeleine ffrench Mullen.

IE/AL/KL/5/4 [c. 1918] 1 item

Sepia coloured photograph of Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine ffrench Mullen sitting in deck chairs at the Williams' Cottage.

IE/AL/KL/5/6 [c. 1930] 1 item

Photograph of Madeleine ffrench Mullen. [Provenance: Presented by Dr. Lynn, 1952].

IE/AL/KL/7/2 8 March 1918 1 item

Empty envelope addressed to Miss ffrench Mullen, c/o Dr. K. Lynn, 9 Belgrave Road, Dublin. This envelope is stamped 'Post na bfian. Baile átha Cliath'. Madeleine ffrench Mullen Collection

Blank postcards

IE/AL/MFM/1/1- 86 [c. 1900 –1915] 86 items

B&W postcard, H.Schmittmann. Pfarrer und Superior in Leipzig. 19 June 1910. B&W postcard, Leipzig.Rennbahn mit Tribune. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Westplatz. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Rosenthalhugel. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Magdebrunnen. B&W postcard, Grand Hotel, Restaurant de l’Abbaye du Rouge Cloitre. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Katholische Kirche. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Thomasring B&W postcard, Leipzig. Bismarckdenkmal. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Marchenbrunnen am Thomasring. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Reichsgericht. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Konzerthaus. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Buchhandlerhaus. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Napoleonstein. Colour postcard, Leipzig. Thomasring. B&W postcard, Leipzig. Augustusplatz. Envelope containing images of Leipzig printed on the inside. B&W postcard, map and scenes in Leipzig. Colour postcard, 4 yellow chics, “Joyeuses Paques” Colour postcard, flowers & bells, “Joyeuses Paques” Colour postcard, 4 hens and two chicks, “Heureuses Paques” Colour postcard of two angels, 'Frohliche Weihnachten'. B&W postcard, Nieuport-Ville. La Grand’ Place, Les Halles, La Tour de l’Eglise. B&W postcard, Nieuport-Ville. L’Eglise. B&W postcard, Nieuport-Ville. Les Ecluses et les Bateaux de Peche. B&W postcard, Nieuport-Ville. L’Interieur de l’Eglise. B&W postcard, Nieuport-Bains. Sur l’Estacade. B&W postcard, Le Zoute-Knocke. Chalet du Zoute. B&W postcard, Knocke s/mer. Brise-lame et la plage. B&W postcard, Knocke. Les Jeux a la Plage. B&W postcard, Knocke s/mer. L’heure du bain. B&W postcard, Knocke s/mer. La digue. Colour postcard, Knocke-sur-Mer. Le moulin et l’eglise. B&W postcard, Knocke. Le Moulin du Kalf, et la Digue du Comte Jean san Peur (XV e Siecle). B&W postcard, Knocke. L’Avenue Lippens. B&W postcard, Knocke s/mer. Le village et le moulin. B&W postcard, Knocke. Hotel des dunes. Sepia coloured postcard, Knocke. Vegetation dans les dunes. Colour postcard,cartoon of a dentist extracting a mans tooth. 'Cricket phrases “Stumps were then drawn”. ' Colour postcard of two hunters being chased by bulls. Colour postcard, 'Armadillo baskets'. Colour postcard, cartoon drawing of a sausage dog dressed as a clown.'Heureuseannee' Colour Easter postcard, depicting a child and two lambs pulling a cart with a large egg in it. Colour Easter postcard, depicting a child standing at a trough with two lambs pulling a cart with a large egg in it. Colour Easter postcard, depicting a dog and a chick which has just broken out of its egg. Colour postcard, cartoon of a kitten tearing up money. 'I'm getting through some money here!' B&W postcard, 5. Procession de Furnes. L'Etable de Bethleem et les Bergers. B&W postcard, 21. Procession de Furnes. Le portement de la croix. B&W postcard, 23. Procession de Furnes. Penitents portant des croix. Colour postcard, 'Souvenir D'Hollande'. Colour postcard, scene from G. Rossinni's opera, William Tell. Colour postcard, Villefranche. La Rade et l'Escadre. Colour postcard, Broadway, The Green. Colour postcard, On the Dodder at Donnybrook. Colour postcard, panorama view of Duinbergen. Colour postcard, Nordlingen. Der Feilturn (Erdbebenstation). Sepia postcard, photograph of Mr & Mrs. Martin Harvey and family. Sepia coloured postcard, 'La Vierge avec l'Enfant Jesus'. Sepia coloured postcard, 'A parting' (Walker Art Gallery). Sepia coloured postcard, Parc de Laeken, Bruxelles. Sepia coloured postcard, Wauters (Emile), Le peintre Hugues Van der Goes, au couvent de Rouge-Cloitre. B&W postcard, “Waterford from Mount Misery”. B&W postcard, a girl with a cardboard cut out of the man in the moon. B&W postcard, Zee Brugge. Le mole, long. 2500 m. en mer, larg. 75 m. B&W postcard, St. Anne ter Muiden, Anworpstraat. B&W postcard, two scenes, Schillerhaus in Gohlis and Schiller-Stube. B&W postcard,Souvenir de Nieuport-Bains. 14. Dunes Boiosees. Route du Nieuport Ville. B&W postcard, Malines. La Cathedrale et l’Hotel de Ville. B&W postcard, Grand Hotel - Restaurant de l’Abbaye du Rouge Cloitre. B&W postcard of a baby holding a rattle, sitting on a rug. B&W postcard of a young woman and probably her mother, both are dressed formally. B&W postcard, the Monastery, Broadway. B&W postcard, ruins O'Neill Castle, Dungannon. B&W postcard, Plunkett Avenue, Ballybrophy, Queen's County. B&W postcard, St. James' Church, Castledermot. B&W postcard, Versailles. Le Petit Trianon. B&W postcard, Bruxelles – Ixelles. Eglise de la Trinite. Postcard with a colour border showing a B&W photograph of 'Bruxelles Hotel de Ville'. B&W postcard, Furnes – L'Hotel de Ville, le Palais de Justice et de Beffroi. B&W postcard, Furnes – La Maison des Officiers Espagnols et le Theatre. B&W postcard, photograph of a man standing beside a woman who is sitting in a cart drawn by a dog. B&W postcard, photograph of a dog sitting on a chair beside a basket full of pups. What shall I do with them?” B&W postcard of Sean MacDiarmada, executed 9 May 1916. B&W postcard of Eamonn Ceannt, executed 8 May 1916. B&W postcard of James Connolly, executed 9 May 1916. B&W postcard, cartoon sketch of a woman with a wolfhound (Ireland) putting a 'peace' wreath on a monument 'sacred to the memory of Ireland's martyrs. Easter- tide 1916'. The caption reads 'God save Ireland'.

Postcards addressed to Miss Mary Kelly

IE/AL/MFM/2/1- 27 1912-1914 27 items

Postcards addressed to Miss Mary Kelly, 51 Rue Magistrat, Avenue Louise, Bruxelles, . Senders include: Lawrence and Harriet Kieran, Dunleer, county Louth; J.P.K.; M.O'Flynn; Alese Weir; R, Calcutta; M.P.R.; [ill.] T. Robertson; 'Piglet'; E.V., Brussels; [ill.] O'Neill; M. Fiess; Noeleen; Alice.

Postcards mainly addressed to Madeleine ffrech-Mullen

IE/AL/MFM/3/1 – 135 [c. 1907 -1923] 135 items

Postcards mainly addressed to Madeleine ffrench Mullen. Senders include: Her mother; her sister, Pearl and brother, Douglas; E. Arkermann, Kiel Hospitals; J.P.K.; Jarlath Miela; Henry, Laurence and Jack; Grete; Riley; L. Maxwell; M.T. Robertson.; E.M. Jarlette; Rita; Issu Weir, India; Marie Tavares Murphy; Marcelle; Fr. Anthony Mills o.s.m.; Helene; M.A. O'Neill; Fawicin Gizewski; Frieda Ruge; Kathleen, 64 Kingsley Road, Prince's Park, Liverpool; Fr. M. Pautleuv; Blanche; Simonne Brioks; Joe; [ill.] Hayes; Alese Weir; H.A. Morris; 'Squirrel', India; The Derchants; A. Robertson; L. Kelly; Olga; Lily; Eva McC; Alise Weir; A. McCarthy.

Postcards addressed to Pearl ffrench Mullen

IE/AL/MFM/4/1-13 [c. 1911 - 1926] 13 items

Postcards addressed to Pearl ffrench Mullen. Senders include: her aunt; her sister, Madeleine; Kathleen; Laurence and Jack; Eileen.

Postcards addressed to Douglas ffrench Mullen

IE/AL/MFM/5/1 4 May 1910 1 item

B&W postcard. 'Gruss aus Ruhl's gasthof “Heilerer Blick”, Markkleeberg.

IE/AL/MFM/5/2 25 December 1911 1 item

B&W postcard, showing a portrait of Robert Burns.

IE/AL/MFM/5/3 14 December 1915 1 item

Postcard from Willie Pearse to Douglas ffrench Mullen inviting him to a 'little ceilah' at St. Enda's.

Miscellaneous items

IE/AL/MFM/6/1/1-8 [c.1913] 8 items

Green envelope with musical notation written in pencil on it. Empty envelope for postcards. Official programme for a procession. Postcard addressed to Professor Gizauski, Munster, Cordestrasse. Postcard addressed to Mademoiselle Hedemann from M.T. Postcard addressed to Miss C. McDonnell, 41 Rue du Prince Royal, Brussels, Belgium. Postcard with the following typed text, 'L'Administration de la Compagnie Immobiliere Le Zoute a l'honneur de faire savoir au public quelle a organise la vente de tous les journaux belges et etrangers. Ce service fonctionnera a partir du lr aout 1912, et sera installe dans un kiosque situe sur le rond-point, devant la station du tram du Zoute.' Postcard addressed to Rev. Fr. O'Neill, 29 Rue Washington, Brussells, Belgium (17 November 1913).

IE/AL/MFM/6/2/1-6 [c. 1913] 6 items

Six different prayer leaflets. Diary

IE/AL/MFM/7 (On loan to Dundalk County Louth Museum) May 1916 1 item;

Diary written by Madeleine ffrench Mullen in Kilmainham and Mountjoy Jails. The diary begins on the 5 May 1916 and recalls events from the 24 April 1916 onwards. The final entry is dated 20 May 1916.

James Bermingham Collection IE/AL/JB/23 12 March 1895 1 item; 4pp

Handwritten letter from Lieutenant ffrench Mullen, Dublin to James Bermingham. He tells him that he is enclosing a cheque for £2 to pay for Doyle's bill. He is glad the association is going well and mentions Mr. O'Kelly's Westminster letter and also mentions a visit by Mr. Redmond.

Postcard Collection

IE/AL/PCC/1/233 [c. 1917] 1 item

Postcard of members of Cumann na mBan, & Clann na nGaedheal who took part in the Rising at the GPO, Jacob’s, Marrowbone Lane, South Dublin Union & College of Surgeons garrisons. The photo was taken in the garden of Mr & Mrs Ely O’Carroll, Peter’s Place, Dublin. Includes: A. Tobin, Aoife Taffee, Marcella Cosgrove, Mrs Murphy, Miss Foley, Martha Kelly, Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh, Lily O’Brennan, Elizabeth O’Farrell, Nora Daly, May Murray, M. Kelly, Bridget Brady, Jenny Shanahan, Katie Barrett, , Máire Ryan, Bridget Davis, Chris Caffrey, P. Hoey, Miss Smith, Nora Foley, Pauline Morecambe, Dolly O’Sullivan, M. Elliot, Mollie O’Sullivan, T. Simpson, Catherine Treston, Nora Thornton, Rose Mullally, Sheila O’Hanlon, Maria Quigley, Margaret O’Flaherty, Josephine McGeown, E. (Lily) Cooney, Josephine O’Keeffe, May Moore, Kathleen Lane, Sara Kealy, G. Colley, M. O’Hanrahan, A. Wisely, Bridget Murtagh, S. Quigley, , S. Twomey, B. Walsh, Rose MacNamara, Kathleen Kenny, Mary Joe Walsh, Mrs Lawless, J. Milner, Eileen Walsh, K. Kennedy, May Byrne, Annie Cooney, Madeleine ffrench Mullen, Brigid Foley, Dr. Kathleen Lynn.