Identity area
Reference code
IE DCUA C2/1/3/5
Title
Pro-Home Rule postcard featuring images of John Redmond and other notable Irish and British political figures.
Date(s)
- [?1915] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
2 items
Context area
Name of creator
(1881-1954)
Name of creator
(1951-)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Two copies of postcard featuring a photograph of John Redmond surrounded by a garland and two shamrocks on a green background. Above the image is printed 'Éire Saor' [Free Ireland] and below the images is written 'home rule', and also two verses in Irish entitled 'Curaí'. A tab enables one to raise the image of Redmond off the card allowing a folded strip of six photographs to drop down. The strip includes photographs of following: William E Gladstone, Charles Stewart Parnell, HH Asquith, the 'Old Irish Parliament' [Parliament Building, College Green], Joseph Devlin and John Dillon. Beneath the portraits are three verses of ‘A Nation Once Again’. Postcard printed by Valentine & Sons Limited, Dundee.