Captain George Berkeley Descriptive List (Ref. PR12)

PR12/

[51p]

III

Guns on the Asgard (1951)

128a February – April 1951 (1914)

‘Guns on the Asgard’, by Mary Spring Rice, edited by Mrs. Erskine Childers. From The Sunday Press newspaper, in 5 instalments. Recounts experience of collecting and transporting guns for the Irish Volunteers on the vessel Asgard in July- August 1914. Also ‘What the Asgard meant to Ireland, A Footnote by David O’Neill’, from The Irish Press.

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