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TS. extract of speech or article on Theobald Wolfe Tone, United Irishmen leader (1798). ‘Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead but crucified when living…’. Concludes ‘ WR Foundation stone to memorial in Bodenstown laid 15 August 1898’. 2pp
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1914-1923 MS. notes and draft writings mainly concerning the 1914-1923 period, in Gaelic and in English. Including notes on Easter 1916 in Cork. May include draft of U156/35. 34pp [1914] TS. of article or copy of text from a publication. Concerns the period 1914-1916 and the ‘resurrection of Irish revolutionary spirit’. 1p July 1914 TS. article concerning the landing of guns for the Irish Volunteers at Howth in July 1914. Gives an account of the events of the day when rifles were brought ashore and the British military fired upon a crowd of demonstrators. 2pp [1960s] MS. note containing copy text of a speech by Eamon De Valera on the 50 th anniversary of the 1916 Rising on the subject of the Irish language (Gaelic). 2pp
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