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Records of the Literary and Historical Society
This From the Archives post features an extract from the minute book of the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin, February 1915.
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Papers of Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald
Three documents from the Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald Papers (UCD Archives) released as part of our From the Archives Centenary Special. Includes a letter from GB Shaw.
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Col. Maurice Moore to ‘Lord Mayor’ [Lorcan Sherlock], 25 December 1914
To round out this year’s ‘From the Archives’ series, December’s instalment finds Col. Maurice Moore of the pro-Redmond National Volunteers taking a moment after his Christmas dinner to press on with his plans to arm and equip the National Volunteers.
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Minute book of the Belgian Refugees’ Committee
This month’s ‘From the Archives’ document is an extract from the minute book of the (Irish) Belgian Refugees Committee, established in October 1914 as part of the wider British response to the flow of civilian refugees flooding out of Belgium in the weeks after the country became the epicentre of the twentieth century’s first global conflict.
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Statement to the Irish Volunteers, 24 September 1914
This month’s ‘From the Archives’ document is arguably one of the most important pre-independence documents extant in University College Dublin Archives. It was the document that split the Irish Volunteers, Ireland’s largest ever paramilitary force, one hundred years ago on 24 September 1914.
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