Niamh Jordan

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[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

Cumann na mBan Application Form.
Can you drive a Motor?
Have you ever passed an examination in First Aid?
Do you know Morse Code?
Can you clean and load a firearm?
Are you an Irish speaker?
Have you opportunities for acquiring useful information about the enemy?
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[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

Wonderful performance of Ulick O'Connor's 'Execution' by the Cabra Historical society tonight at Dundalk Gaol.

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

#OTD 101 years ago four men Rory O'Connor, Richard Barrett, Joe McKelvey & Liam Mellows were chosen to be executed as reprisal for the assassination of TD Sean Hales.
Here is a copy of the letter notifying them of their execution on Dec 8th signed by Richard Mulcahy @ucdarchives

[The Irish at War @irelandbattles]

#OnThisDay 1922 The first four, of seventy-seven, official executions of IRA by the Irish Free State took place in Kilmainham Gaol. The four were arrested for possession of a revolver.
James Fisher, 18
Richard Twohig, 19
John Gaffney, 19
Peter Cassidy, 21

#Ireland #History

[Mick O'Farrell @MOF1916]

Different times indeed!
“The Council requests the immediate removal of the gratuitously insulting notice-board wherein UCD - a Constituent College of the NATIONAL University of Ireland - is referred to as the General Head-Quarters of a Commandant of the English Military Forces.”

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Four months after Armistice the Students' Representative Council UCD issued a resolution to Academic Council 'the students should be still insulted by being lectured in their own National University by Professors in the uniform of their oppressors.' @ucdarchives #mulcahypapers

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@SineadBrennan1 @ucdarchives Hi Sinéad, the intelligence report states Sligo as for the surname I couldn't say for certain. The copied letter is marked 'J. Quinn, A wing' but this is possibly a false name.

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Smuggling letters into prison via cake 🧵 #IrishCivilWar
A letter from a woman named Dorothy to her husband Dan discussing her fear of him being executed, on a list with her sister to 'be taken', & reminiscing on their last night together 'I am hungry for more' @ucdarchives

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

@RichardMcELL @RIAdawson That's a great photo!

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

'they took the sugar off it before I got it...they thought there was a note in it' - Letter written by 'a prisoner under sentence of death for desertion and taking up arms' thanking his friend for a cake #Mulcahypapers

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

IRA HQ Cork appeal to Free State Army. Oct 1923.
To our comrades,
You who were once our brothers in this fight...We have stood together against a mighty empire, surely there are enough of you, with enough courage left to stand up against their numbers
@ucdarchives #mulcahypapers

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

Kevin Barry, an 18yr old medical student @ucd received news of his execution #OTD in 1920. Barry was captured in a raid on British troops. He took the job believing he would make it to an exam at 2 p.m. the same day. Here is a signed copy of his sister's statement. @ucdarchives

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

Eoin O'Duffy's response to Minister for Defense, Cathal Brugha declining the position as Director of Organisation. Nov 1921
'I am reluctantly compelled to interpret the reduction in rank as a personal slight and a grave dishonor which I submit I do not deserve'.
@ucdarchives

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

Attempting to prevent the #IrishCivilWar April 1922
'To Paddy Daly
..I am convinced if sensible men on both sides come together it cannot but be possible to arrive at some solution...satisfactory to both sides of the army in this crisis..
Your old comrade
Dan Breen'
@ucdarchives

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

27 Sept 1922
Copy of rules of warfare issued by Liam Lynch, C/S anti-treaty IRA.
'Our troops have been shot while prisoners...our troops are strictly forbidden from carrying out similar reprisals'
'Shooting of unarmed enemy (Free State) troops is forbidden'
@ucdarchives

[Lissadell House @LissadellHouse]

Countess Markievicz Civil War sketches

Lissadell collection

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[Lissadell House @LissadellHouse]

@JordanNiamh @ucdarchives "Free Staters in Action" by Countess Markievicz

Lissadell collection

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

@eolanryngsf me too!

[Ó Rinn @eolanryng]

Love the 'Year 7 of the Irish Republic '.

Saw similar dating on Tin Town autograph books. Shows how deeply held the Irish Republic was as a living thing.

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Some examples of Pro-Treaty/National Army propaganda.

#mulcahypapers

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#IrishCivilWar Propaganda 🧵
Anti-Treaty IRA vs Pro-Treaty IRA
@ucdarchives

Cumann na mBan played a leading role in producing and disseminating anti-Treaty propaganda. Here C na mB president Countess Markievicz, a propaganda cartoonist, depicts the free-state forces at work.

[Niamh Jordan @JordanNiamh]

Arrests of members of Cumann na mBan for propaganda activities.