DOI: 10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_265000
title: Irregular News

description: This is a collection of six bound volumes of Irish newspapers and ephemera covering the period 1916 to 1940. The majority of the material in four of the six volumes is from the Civil War period, 1922-23. These four volumes include long runs of anti-treaty newspapers including the Daily Sheet, the Daily Bulletin and Poblacht na h-Eireann and issues of other titles such as The Fenian and The Flame. In addition, there are many anti-treaty ephemeral items such as leaflets and short pamphlets. Bound in with these Civil War materials are occasional items from 1916, the War of Independence and the early years of the Free State. In addition to the four volumes pertaining to the Civil War era, one of the volumes contains a weekly newspaper entitled Nationality, edited by Arthur Griffith, covering the period September 1917 to February 1919 and another volume includes issues of the Republican Newspaper War News from the period 1939-40.
description: Scope and content: This is a collection of six bound volumes of Irish newspapers and ephemera covering the period 1916 to 1940. It was assembled by the Irish Franciscans and was transferred to UCD in 2017 as part of the UCD OFM partnership agreement. The majority of the material in four of the six volumes is from the Civil War period, 1922-23. These four volumes include long runs of the following anti-treaty publications: Poblacht na h-Eireann: War News, The Daily Sheet and the Daily Bulletin. The collection also contains issues of publications such as The Fenian, The Flame, The Republican Bulletin, Poblacht na h-Eireann Scottish edition, An Saorstat: The Free State, Ar n-Éire: New Ireland, Old Ireland Éire Óg: Young Ireland, and The Republican War Bulletin. In addition to these newspapers, there are a large number of ephemeral leaflets and short pamphlets produced by the anti-treaty forces during the Civil War. This primary source material gives detailed accounts of daily activities of the irregulars during the Civil War and also shows the reaction of the anti-treaty propaganda machine to the deaths of high profile figures in the conflict such as Michael Collins and Harry Boland. Bound in with these Civil War materials are occasional items from 1916, the War of Independence and the early years of the Free State. The most notable of these is an issue of Na Bac Leis which was a newspaper produced by the prisoners of Ballykinlar internment camp in Co. Down dated 1921. In addition to this Civil War era material, one of the volumes contains a weekly newspaper entitled Nationality covering the period September 1917 to February 1919. This newspaper was edited by Arthur Griffith. Another volume includes issues of the Republican Newspaper War News from the period 1939-40.
description: Biographical/historical information: This material was collected by the Irish Franciscans and was originally held in their friary on Merchants Quay and subsequently in the Franciscan House of Studies in Killiney. It was transferred to UCD in 2017 as part of the UCD OFM partnership agreement. This is one part of a much larger collection of material, including 5000 early printed books, numerous early modern manuscripts and the Eamon De Valera papers that have been transferred to UCD under the terms of the UCD OFM partnership.
description: Funding: Funder: University College Dublin ; funding stream: UCD Seed Funding Scheme.
description: Location of original: UCD Special Collections, UCD Library.
description: Rights note: This collection contains volumes with mixed copyright status. See the individual records for each volume for copyright details.
description: Citation/reference: UCD Library Special Collections have produced videos about the collection featuring Evelyn Flanagan, Head of UCD Special Collections, UCD School of History Professor Diarmaid Ferriter, and Professor John Mc Cafferty. See the "Cited/referenced by" section for links to these videos.