File includes press cutting of news coverage of the wedding of Professor [Michael] Tierney and Miss MacNeill, daughter of Eoin MacNeill. Michael Rynne, pictured was Best Man at the wedding. 29 Jun 1923.
File of manuscript letters sent to Michael Rynne from Dan Binchy, Ireland's ambassador to Germany from 1929 to 1932, and a cousin of Michael Rynne.
Manuscript draft report with final typescript version of Report of Organiser in 5th Battalion Area, West Clare Brigade, Óglaigh na hÉireann, prepared by Michael Rynne and submitted to the Director of Training (Emmet Dalton). Includes detailed information on each company under the West Clare Brigade, information on training, equipment, personnel, organisation, including remarks on company performance, members and leadership.
Black and white photographs of a flying column under review, A.S.U. VII Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Ballyknockan, Co. Wicklow. "A flying Column before the Truce with England, June 1921).
File includes manuscript-drawn map of region around Sligo and Fermanagh. with a number of towns marked and named. Note pf "plan" is inscribed. MS document entitled "Instructions to Subagents" and makes reference to instructions to those preparing for elections and voting logistics plans; Printed form od Statutory Declaration of Secrecy for mid-Antrim division, signed by the declarant, Patrick McFadden, Dec 1918. Also loose scraps of paper with names and adddresses of some individuals. Also includes photocopy of press cutting of letter written to the Irish Times by Michael Rynne, 16 Jul 1977, commenting on his experiences of lynching for "his candidate" in the Ballymena, Co. Antrim in 1918, when he acted as "personation agent" by impersonating the anti-Unionist Patrick McFadden.
Editions of:
Evening Herald, Vol. 30. No. 291, Wednesday 7 December 1921. Headline of "World Welcomes Irish Peace News" regarding the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Front page image of Eamon De Valera shaking hands with David Lloyd George.
"Scéalta Chatha" (South-Western Command War-News), 22 Sep 1922, Vol. II, No. XVIII
"An Saorsát: The Free State", No.1, Vol. 1, 25 Feb 1922
Scéal Chatha Luimnighe (Limerick War News) Vol. 1, No. 5. 18 Jul 1922
Scéal Chatha Luimnighe (Limerick War News) Vol. 1, No. XV, 29 Jul 1922
War News Broadside No. 6, 2 Jul 1922
TS Decree - Emigration from Ireland - being a statement explaining the terms behind from then on, "no citizen of the Irish Republic shall be permitted to leave Ireland for the purpose of settling abroad . . . "
Printed statement signed by General Richard Mulcahy, Commander in Chief, General Headquarters, Portobello. "Special Order of the Day" and issues a statement denying any involvement by the Free State Army in the killings of Christopher Breslin and Joseph Kernan.
File of manuscript letters from Thomas McLaughlin, first managing director of the E.S.B, discussing points relating to the Shannon Hydro-Electric Power Station and general personal matters. One letter on Siemens-Schuckert. (LTD) headed paper. Some letters written as McLaughlin is supervising exams at University College, Galway (UCG)
Also an extract from Sunday Independent large feature on McLaughlin, 18 Sep 1955, and his biography/role in the E.S.B.
Files of letters relating to Michael Rynne's involvement with the Department of External Affairs, Irish Free State; the League of Nations and correspondence with various figures in both Ireland and Europe involved and connected to European/Irish events.