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Clippings from the ‘Irish Times’ and the ‘Irish Press’ referring to the prohibition on the circulation of the ‘Orange Terror’ offprint in Northern Ireland as the book was deemed ‘prejudicial to preservation of peace and the maintenance of order’.

A short review piece on ‘Paddy the Cope’, an autobiography of Patrick Gallagher who ‘brought co-operatives to Ireland’. A note suggests that this review was published in ten Catholic newspapers.

Manuscript transcript of song ‘Republicans are We’ to the air of ‘The Soldiers’ Song’. The first verse reads:
‘When bravely we’d fought our land to free
Our Tricolour flying o’ar us,
The ancient foe for peace did seek,
From I.R.A. victorious
Our envoys went to London town
And there, let our Republic down;
But still, till Freedom battle’s won
Republicans are We’.

An image of two inhabitants of the Aran Islands in about 1940. The title of the print is ‘seanchas’, an old Irish word referring to the act of storytelling and conveying an ancient tale handed down by oral tradition. A ‘seanchaí’ was a storyteller or a custodian of this tradition.