This is a collection of photocopies of papers relating mainly to Mary MacSwiney, envelope inscription states that the originals are in the possession of Máire Comerford, St Nessans, Sandyford, County Dublin, 1981. The material includes:

Cutting from the Sunday Times 25 October 1970 on 'The Sorry Fate of the House of Gore-Booth'

Copy of a typescript document entitled James O'Mara and Mrs Patricia Lavelle on Mary MacSwiney, appears to have been taken from the biography which Patricia Lavelle wrote of her father, James O'Mara

Notes on Mary MacSwiney which appear to be reminiscences

Extract from typescript letter from Annie MacSwiney to Peter MacSwiney 1 January 1922 about the importance of the fight for the 'Republic'

Copy of a pamphlet by Máire Ní Suibhne [Mary MacSwiney] on 'Poblacht na hÉireann: The Republic of Ireland'

Copy of the address to The President and House of Congress of the United States of America signed on behalf of Cumann na mBan

Extract from Countess Markievicz's Dáil speech against the Treaty on 3 January 1922; copy of a letter from Daithí Ceannt TD to Countess Markievicz July 10, 1928 regarding de Valera's assertion that the aims and objects of Fianna Fáil are the same as those of Sinn Féin
letter from Máire [Mary MacSwiney?] to' A Mháire' [Máire Comerford] dated 30 January 1923 regarding hunger strikes

Letter from Mary MacSwiney to Máire Comerford (?) dated 15 November 1932 is disappointed that Sinn Féin are not organising more meetings; letter from Mary MacSwiney to Nodlaig Brugha and Eibhlín Ní Tobraide dated 6 December 1933 regarding the formation of a group called Mná Na Poblacta, which she will not join

Letter from Mary MacSwiney to Eibhlín Ní Tobraide dated 25 October 1933 regarding the problems she has with Mná Na Poblachta

Newspaper cutting from the Irish Press'29 December 1947 on 'The Underground Presses of Irish Independence'

Cutting from The Irish Democrat, May 1968, of an article by Máire Comerford on 'Women in the Irish Struggle'

Cutting on the closing of Scoil Íte (founded by Mary MacSwiney); cutting of an article by H. Sheehy Skeffington from the Irish Press on 'Constance Markievicz - Stray Memories and Reflections', 9 February 1940

Cutting from the Irish Times of a letter from Máire Comerford about the First Dáil, 14 January 1969

Cutting of a speech made by Máire Comerford on the inauguration of Dáil Éireann, 18 January 1969

Cutting of an article by R.M. Fox 'The Fighter and the Pacifist', about Eva Gore-Booth
cutting from The United Irishman, October 1960 on Mary MacSwiney entitled 'A Fearless Lady'

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