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Arthur Shields joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 with his friend Charles Saurin. He apparently kept his rifle hidden under the Abbey stage. On Easter Monday 1916 he got separated from his company when he went to collect his rifle from the Abbey. Instead he joined a group led by James Connolly and spent the week of the rising in the G.P.O.

28 images on negative and contact sheets.

Photographs of thatchers at work in Carraroe.

Some pictures of boats out on the water.

Typescript (2007 computer print-out) of article from The Observer by Henry McDonald, entitled 'Thatcher's dealings with IRA go back to hunger strikes' [as POL35/384].

Cassette audio tape of BBC audio adaptation of "That They May Face the Rising Sun", adapted and read by John McGahern, produced by Kate Triggs.

Summary of address by Christopher T. Morris, former President of the Language Freedom Movement, to a meeting of SPECTRUM, the Science Debating Society, University College Belfield, Dublin, on 8 February, 1971. Topic: 'That nationalism is dead'. Discusses notions of nationality discussing the tribal system, the concept of a nation, using negative examples of nationalism from the past, and arguing that civil rights today have greater significance than nationalism.

Two copies of the address of Christopher T. Morris, President of the Language Freedom Movement, at a debate held by the Solicitor's Apprentices Debating Society in Dublin on 20 May, 1968. The motion was 'that Ireland without a national language is not worth living or dying for'. Refers to the UNESCO definition of a national language, and discusses revolutionary history, arguing that being prepared to give one's life for a nation has usually been in defence of social justice, civil liberties, and other such values, ahead of language.

Advertisement for Trinity College Historical Society debate, the motion "That a nation without language is a nation without spirit'. Lists the speakers for and against, Christopher T. Morris, President of the Language Freedom Movement is one of the speakers against the motion. Two copies of Mr. Morris's address, in which he argues that there are many examples of countries where national spirit is independent of language, and that the LFM are "sacred cow punchers, but not iconoclasts".

Handwritten draft of song beginning "Thart siar fá na gleantáin", from Rose Gallagher, index 24.