Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 130 Sean O’Mahony Papers (MSS 44,025 - 44,310) (Accession No. 6,148) Papers collected by Sean O’Mahony relating to Irish history and various republican and nationalist movements (1689-2005) with an emphasis on the troubles in Northern Ireland and the contemporary Irish republican movement, 1969-2005. Compiled by Ciara Kerrigan, Assistant Keeper I and Harriet Wheelock, Archival Studentship, 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS......................................................................................................7 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................8 Sean O’Mahony .........................................................................................................8 The Irish Republican Movement ...............................................................................8 The papers..................................................................................................................9 Arrangement ............................................................................................................10 Assessment...............................................................................................................10 Bibliography ............................................................................................................11 PART ONE I. PRE-1916 REPUBLICANISM..............................................................................12 I.i. 1689-1848...........................................................................................................12 I.ii. Fenianism and the Irish Republican Brotherhood.............................................13 I.iii. The Phoenix Park murders, 1882 .....................................................................14 I.iv. Home Rule and the Land League .....................................................................14 I.v. The Gaelic League.............................................................................................15 I.vi. Other republican movements and individuals ..................................................15 II. EASTER RISING, WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND CIVIL WAR, 1916-1923 ..................................................................................17 II.i. 1916 Rising and its aftermath ...........................................................................17 II.i.1. Contemporary papers .................................................................................17 II.i.2. Personal accounts.......................................................................................19 II.i.3. Regional accounts ......................................................................................20 II.i.4. Journal articles ...........................................................................................20 II.i.5. Commemorative papers .............................................................................21 II.i.6. Frongoch Interment Camp, 1916 ...............................................................22 II.i.6.a. Contemporary papers and related documents .....................................23 II.i.6.b. Newscuttings, photographs and articles..............................................24 II.i.6.c. Correspondence...................................................................................26 II.ii. 1918 election and First Dáil Éireann, 1919-21 ................................................27 II.iii. War of Independence, 1919-21.......................................................................29 II.iii.1. Contemporary papers...............................................................................29 II.iii.2. Personal accounts.....................................................................................30 II.iii.3. Regional accounts ....................................................................................31 II.iii.4. Republican prisoners and ‘martyrs’.........................................................32 II.iii.5. Journal articles .........................................................................................32 II.iii.6.Commemorative newspapers....................................................................34 II.iii.7. Ballykinlar Interment Camp, 1920-1 .......................................................35 II.iv. The Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921 .........................................................................36 II.v. The Civil War, 1922-3 .....................................................................................37 II.v.1. Free State and Pro-Treaty IRA..................................................................37 II.v.2. Anti-Treaty IRA ........................................................................................38 II.v.3. Republican prisoners and ‘martyrs’ ..........................................................39 II.v.4. Newspapers ...............................................................................................40 II.v.5. Regional accounts .....................................................................................41 2 II.v.6. Journal articles...........................................................................................41 II.v.7. Other papers ..............................................................................................42 II.vi. 1923 Elections.................................................................................................43 II.vii. Northern Ireland.............................................................................................43 II.viii. Bureau of Military History............................................................................44 II.viii.1. Information guides.................................................................................44 II.viii.2. Witness statements.................................................................................45 II.ix. Clerical views..................................................................................................46 III. IRISH FREE STATE, 1924-1939 ......................................................................48 III.i. Government papers..........................................................................................48 III.ii. Military Service Pensions Act, 1934 ..............................................................48 III.iii. Fianna Fáil .....................................................................................................49 III.iv. IRA, Sinn Féin and Cumann na mBan ..........................................................50 III.v. Republican cases and prisoners ......................................................................52 III.vi. Other organisations........................................................................................54 III.vii. Contemporary and commemorative newspapers..........................................54 IV. THE EMERGENCY, 1939-1945........................................................................56 IV.i. IRA papers.......................................................................................................56 IV.ii. Republican cases, prisoners and ‘martyrs’ .....................................................56 IV.iii. Personal accounts ..........................................................................................59 IV.iv. Contemporary and later newspapers..............................................................61 IV.v. Other papers....................................................................................................62 V. IRISH FREE STATE AND REPUBLIC, 1945-1969.........................................63 V.i. Seán McNally and Irish Anti-Partition League ................................................63 V.ii. Clann na Poblachta ..........................................................................................64 V.iii. Sinn Féin and IRA ..........................................................................................67 V.iv. Republican prisoners and cases ......................................................................69 V.v. Republican Prisoners’ Release Association.....................................................70 V.vi. Belfast, Antrim & Down Pre-Truce IRA (3rd Northern Division)..................71 V.vii. Wolfe Tone Society .......................................................................................71 V.viii. Other societies and organisation...................................................................72 V.ix. Contemporary newspapers..............................................................................73 VI. IRISH SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM ......................................................75 VII. INDIVIDUALS...................................................................................................77 VII.i. Kevin Barry (1902-1920)...............................................................................77 VII.ii. Tom Barry (1897-1980) ................................................................................77 VII.iii. Eamonn Boyce (b.1925) ..............................................................................78 VII.iv. (Robert) Erskine Childers (1870-1922)........................................................80 VII.v. Thomas Clarke (1857-1916) and Kathleen Clarke (1878-1972)...................81 VII.vi. Michael Collins (1890-1922) .......................................................................82