Irish Republic 2

1922−58 File on Dorothy Macardle (1899−1958) including documents relating to the production
of The Irish Republic (1st edition, 1937)

Incudes:

− press cuttings of articles written by or referring to Macardle, including articles captioned ‘The Kerry Massacre. Statement of a Survivor’ [Stephen Fuller]; ‘Kilmainham Tortures. Experiences of a Released Prisoner’ [Macardle]; ‘A Year Ago’ being Macardle’s reminiscences on Erskine Childers, An Phoblacht, Rory O’Connor, Robert Barton, Frank Gallagher and events in the Four Courts. Also includes pages from Éire and Sinn Féin containing articles, poems and short stories by Macardle (May 1923−December 1924, 5 items)

– comments by Chief of Staff Frank Aiken on Macardle’s book Tragedies of Kerry (3 June & 19 August 1924, 2 items)

− place card in the name of D. Ní h-Árdghail [Dorothy Macardle]. ‘Sinn Féin Chomhairle Ceanntair Chorcaighe. Fáiltiú roimh Éamon de Bhalera, Uachtarán Poblachta na h-Éireann ag Scoil Íde 14-9-24, a 8 p.m.’. With eighteen signatures on reverse of card including de Valera, Mary MacSwiney, Tom Crofts, Joe Begley, Muriel MacSwiney and Daithí Ceannt (14 September 1924, 1 item)

− copybook containing holograph table of contents and details of twenty-one chapters of a book covering 1912 to 1925 (n.d., 37pp)

− reminiscences by de Valera on his family (30 June 1934, 19pp & 7pp), Michael Collins and Roger Casement (6pp & 4pp). All written in Dorothy Macardle’s hand

− correspondence between Macardle and Gerry Boland, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, concerning Michael Collins (29 November & 11 December 1935, 2 items, 1p each)

− correspondence between Macardle and de Valera and Kathleen O'Connell (1935–47, 80 items)

− drafts of preface to The Irish Republic by de Valera and correspondence between Macardle and de Valera about the preface ([July 1936], 15 items)

− draft letter from de Valera to Miss Ross, Secretary of the Women Writers’ Club regretting that he cannot attend the Club’s reception in honour of Macardle and paying tribute to Macardle’s The Irish Republic−‘because of her devotion, this period is more accurately recorded than any other similar in Irish history. As a book of reference “The Irish Republic” is invaluable...but it is not from the historical student’s standpoint that I think “The Irish Republic” should be chiefly appraised. It is as an epic story of the great endeavour of a people told as it should be told, with simplicity and truth−as a story that will inspire the future youth of our nation and teach them the wisdom without which high enterprise cannot be pursued to success–as a story that will warn them of the tragedy that ever lies close by when great deeds are attempted...I can only wish that future generations may be as well served in their historians as this has been by Miss Macardle” (3 February 1938, 2 items, 1p & 2pp)

− letter (16 October 1950, 1p) to Macardle from the Secretary of the Bureau of Military History, 1913−21, returning documents loaned by Macardle to the Bureau. The documents are described as ‘Letter dated 11.6.36 from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Miss Macardle re fixing of date of the Rising’, ‘Two letters from George Gavan Duffy−one dated 18.1.36 dealing with the Extract from L’Annuaire de Législation comparée included in Miss Macardle’s “History of the Irish Republic”...and another dated 11.3.36 referring to the story of Easter Week by Cú Uladh in “An t’Éireannach” ’ and ‘Part of Draft A of Free State Constitution as signed by Darrell Figgis, James McNeill and John O’Byrne’ (1922, 1936, 1950, 5 items)

− sketch maps of the south Dublin/Wicklow region captioned ‘To Laragh by Poulaphouca & Glenmacneas’ (18cm x 31cm); ‘By Sally Gap to Roundwood’ (18cm x 28cm) and ‘Another route to Woodenbridge’ (19cm x 26cm)

− articles by Macardle such as The Curlew’s Cry (published in Columbia, June 1925, 3pp); ‘The Death of Mr. Figgis’ (holograph, n.d., 4pp); holograph article entitled ‘Eamon de Valera’ (n.d., 7pp) found in envelope labelled ‘Unpublished article by Dorothy Macardle (1924)’; The Irish Nation and Majority Rule a three-part series of articles published in The Irish Press (18– 20 October 1933, 3 items); ‘The Shaping of Modern Ireland James Connolly and Patrick Pearse’ (written to be broadcast, also published in The Irish Times, 1956, 20pp) (see also P150/516 for copy of edited typescript entitled ‘The Shaping of Modern Ireland James Connolly and Patrick Pearse’ by Dorothy Macardle. With note on first page, ‘To be broadcast in 1956, 2RN, Easter 1956’ and duration ‘27 minutes’) and ‘Ella Young: a Poet of the Celtic Twilight’ 1956, 11pp)

1922-1923

Eamon de Valera Papers P150 - 3662 UCDA

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