32 - Sinn Féin Circular Volume

32

Sinn Féin Circular Volume

264 pp; 37 cm x 25.5 cm; typescript, manuscript, printed and newspaper clipping

A bound volume containing original Sinn Féin circulars and printed ephemera. Most of the material dates from 1918 to 1920. The volume includes material relating to the conscription crisis, the 1918 General Election, the Irish Republican Prisoners’ Dependents’ Fund, Sinn Féin organisational matters and party finances, the local elections of 1920, the operation of the Dáil Courts, arbitration in local land disputes, and the Irish Self-Determination League. The volume has extensive manuscript annotations. Many of the circulars were issued by senior Sinn Féin committee members including Thomas Kelly, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, and Pádraig Ó Caoimh. Some later ephemera and newspaper clippings with a provenance to Pádraig Ó Caoimh are also inserted into the volume.

The volume binding has disintegrated, and the text block is exposed. There are also extensive fold marks to the covers and to many of the internal pages. Very careful handling of the volume is required.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition