This special monthly series features selected documents from UCD Archives which give a particular insight into events in Ireland 100 years ago. The documents featured in the series so far are:
1914
January: Terence MacSwiney letter to his sister Peg (January 30 1914).
February: Letter from Michael Joseph (The) O’Rahilly (February 13 1914).
March: Letter from Michael Moynihan to John Moynihan (March 23 1914)
April: Minutes of the Emergency Committee of the Leinster Football Association (April 28 1914).
May: Mary Spring Rice letters to Michael Joseph (The) O’Rahilly, 1 and 9 May 1914 (May 1 & 9 1914).
June: Joseph O’Dóláin (Ardee Irish Volunteers) to Eoin MacNeill (June 15 1914).
July: Programme of Grand Tournament and Military Fete, Castlebar (12 July 1914)
August: John Redmond to Tom Kettle, 25 August 1914 (25 August 1914)
September: Statement to the Irish Volunteers, 24 September 1914 (24 September 1914)
October: Minute book of the Belgian Refugees’ Committee
December: Col. Maurice Moore to ‘Lord Mayor’ [Lorcan Sherlock], (25 December 1914)
1915
January: Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald Papers (January 1915).
February: Records of the Literary and Historical Society (February 1915).
March: Letter from Patrick Pearse to Eamon de Valera (11 March 1915).
April: Letter from Edward Nolan to The O’Rahilly (29 April 1915).
Image: ‘The shell of the G.P.O. on Sackville Street (later O’Connell Street), Dublin in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising’. Source: National Library of Ireland on The Commons (Life goes on…Uploaded by russavia) [see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons
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