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Patrick MacGill as Rifleman
Black and white photograph of Patrick MacGill in uniform holding a gun. He was Rifleman no.3008 in the London Irish Rifles, the 18th Battalion of the London Regiment. Around 1915 MacGill joined the London Irish Rifles, and was wounded at the Battle of Loos, France. During this time he wrote a collection of essays entitled The Amateur Army, recording life as a raw recruit. Giving a journalistic account of war, the sequel, The Red Horizon, was published in 1916 and describes his first days at the war front.
With permission of Donegal County Museum
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Irish Elegies
Signed title page of "Irish Elegies", by Padraic Colum.This was printed by The Dolmen Press in 1961 and consists of elegies on Roger Casement, Kuno Meyer, John Butler Yeats, Arthur Griffith, Thomas Hughes Kelly, James Joyce, Dudley Digges, Seamus O'Sullivan and Monsignor Padraig de Brun.It highlights Colum's interest in Irish history and of his various friendships.
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Portrait drawing of Patrick MacGill
Print of a drawing of a portrait of Patrick MacGill as a young man. Originally done in chalk by Robert J Swan and signed by MacGill, this print was part of a supplement to The Bookman, a literary magazine.
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Seán Dunne Festival - Enjoying the day
Seán Dunne Festival - Enjoying the day. Conor Nolan Arts Officer, Oliver Cleary Mayor, John McGahern author, Paul Durcan poet.
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MacGill Family Photo
Black and white photograph of Patrick MacGill with his family. The photograph includes Patrick MacGill and his wife, Margaret Gibbons, in the foreground, holding their twin baby daughters Patricia and Chriss Ursula. In the background, behind Patrick MacGill stands Mrs A.Gibbons, Mother of his wife Margaret, and behind Margaret stands her sister, Dolly Gibbons.
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Menu of the Dug-Out Banquet
Page from The Red Horizon (edition published in 1984), an extract from the chapter The Dug-Out Banquet. This chapter describes a memorable dinner, which took place in a trench in France, described as ‘The Savoy’ dug-out, during the First World War.
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Children of the Dead End
Front cover of Patrick MacGill’s book ‘Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy’. This is the cover of the seventh edition, published in 1918 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London. However, this book was originally published in 1914 and it is suggested that 10,000 copies were printed in March of that year. Children of the Dead End was one of two interlocking novels. The other, The Rat Pit, was published in 1915. Both tell the story of Dermod Flynn and Norah Ryan, who come from Ireland as children to work as tattie howkers in Scotland. MacGill writes with first hand knowledge of the experiences and conditions these seasonal workers had to endure.
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Patrick MacGill Summer School Poster
Poster for the 1995 Patrick MacGill Summer School, Glenties, Co.Donegal, held from 13th – 18th August. It details three areas the summer school will explore. Theme: ‘Cultural Diversity – Can a Marriage of Two Traditions Succeed?’ and a tribute to ‘The Navvies: The Men who Built Britain’. Music: Traditional Irish Music and Violin recital. Exhibitions and Events (as listed on poster.
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Letter on back of The Men of the Thames
Back of page extracted from a book detailing the poem The Men of the Thames by Patrick MacGill. Originally an extract taken from the London ‘Daily Express’, November 29th 1911. MacGill writes a brief letter from 4 the Cloisters, Windsor, to a comrade stating, ‘I have found a copy other than the only one which I thought I possessed, and shall be pleased if you accept it as a present from a fellow socialist. (I presume you are one).Yours fraternally Patrick MacGill’
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Cover of 'In My Fathers House' by Seán Dunne
Cover of 'In My Fathers House' by Seán Dunne (Gallery Press 2000)editor Peter Fallon. First published Anna Liva 1991.
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The Great Push
Front cover of Patrick MacGill’s book, The Great Push. This is the cover of an edition published in 2000 by Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh, however, it was originally published in 1916. This legendary war literature records MacGill’s experiences at the front line in France, were he wrote this book in the trenches, between raids. In particular, it describes the advance of the London-Irish at the mining town of Loos, France, 1915. After receiving an injury at the Battle of Loos, MacGill finished the last two chapters from a hospital bed in Loos and returned to London.
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Letter from Patrick MacGill with Socialist content
Letter written by Patrick MacGill c.1912, 4 The Cloisters, Windsor Castle, concerning the British Socialist Party. Addressed only to ‘comrade’, it offers the branch of the B.S.P (British Socialist Party?) a copy of his new book and speculates that the B.S.P is financially not very strong. MacGill states that he had been employed at the London Daily Express, under the editorship of A.C. Pearson. He also states that he now has a job in Windsor Castle translating and copying manuscripts and has induced his master to read The Clarion.
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Cover of Patrick MacGill Summer School Programme
Cover of Patrick MacGill Summer School Programme, 2003, 23rd Annual International Summer School, Glenties, Co.Donegal. The theme of the 2003 summer school is ‘Building a more Civilised Society in Ireland’. This programme details how long the summer school has been in existence, that is 1981 – 2003. 1981 was the year of the inauguration of the first Patrick MacGill festival and in 1984, the festival became known as the Patrick MacGill Summer School.
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The Men of the Thames
Page extracted from a book detailing the poem The Men of the Thames by Patrick MacGill. Originally an extract taken from the London ‘Daily Express’, November 29th 1911, this poem was recited by Charles Knowles, a famous English baritone, at the ‘Express’ meeting, held at Greenwich, to demand a warship for the Thames.
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Photograph of Margaret Gibbons, wife of Patrick MacGill
Black and white photograph of Margaret Gibbons. Wife of Patrick MacGill, she was the daughter of a Royal Irish Constabulary policeman and was well connected in London society of the day. They lived in a house in Hendon, which Patrick renamed St.Margaret’s after his wife. This was a literary household as Margaret Gibbons was herself a romantic novelist, with genuine storytelling qualities.
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Seán Dunne Festival - Close up of John McGahern
Seán Dunne Festival - Close up of John McGahern. Sunday 6th April 2003 inthe Greyfriars Gallery at 2:30pm
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Seán Dunne at his desk in Scoil Lorcáin
Seán Dunne at his desk in Scoil Lorcáin
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Battle of Loos Map
Map details the positions of troops at the front line, at the Battle of Loos. Positions are given for troops both before and after the Battle, which took place 25th September 1915. Patrick MacGill had enlisted with The London Irish Rifles upon the outbreak of war in 1914. However, during the advance on the mining town of Loos, France, 1915, MacGill was injured and returned to London. In 1916, MacGill’s book The Great Push was published, which described his experiences at the Battle of Loos. It is suggested that he wrote many chapters in the trenches and the last two chapters from a hospital bed in Loos.
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Cover of Goldsmith's Ghost.
Cover of Goldsmith's Ghost.This is a collaborative novel with chapters written by writers from three counties and is edited by Paul Perry.
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Seán Dunne Festival - 2003 programme
Seán Dunne Festival - 2003 programme
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Seán Dunne Festival - 2003 programme -
Seán Dunne Festival - Jim Nolan opens the Young Writers Awards
Seán Dunne Festival - Jim Nolan opens the Young Writers Awards. The Large Room City Hall. An introduction to the Seán Dunne Literary Festival by Jim Nolan followed by the Mayor's sppech and the presentation of the Young Writer's Awards
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Seán Dunne Festival - full house for a reading by John McGahern
Seán Dunne Festival - full house for a reading by John McGahern. 2:30 pm Sunday 6th April 2003.
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Seán Dunne Festival - Ulick O'Connor at the Waterford City Library Stand
Seán Dunne Festival - Ulick O'Connor at the Waterford City Library Stand, April 2003.
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Seán Dunne Festival - bookbinding, close up
Seán Dunne Festival - bookbinding, close up. Part of the "Hands on" bookbinding workshop with Tom Carroll.
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Seán Dunne Festival - Workshop with Siobhán Parkinson
Seán Dunne Festival - Workshop with Siobhán Parkinson. Thursday 3rd April 2003 at 10:30am.
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Painting of MacGreevy by Sarah Purser
Photograph of painting of MacGreevy by portrait painter and stained glass artist Sarah Purser(1848-1943).The painting dates from the early 1920s when MacGreevy was about 30
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Seán Dunne Festival - Margaret Durand, Ulick O'Connor and Sinead O'Higgins
Seán Dunne Festival - Margaret Durand, Ulick O'Connor and Sinead O'Higgins. April 2003.
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Seán Dunne Festival - Paul Durcan
Seán Dunne Festival - A poetry reading by Paul Durcan Sunday 6th April 2003at 10:30am.
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Nicolas Poussin by Thomas MacGreevy
MacGreevy's study of Poussin was published in 1960 by Dolmen Press . He was Director of the National Gallery at the time.
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Family home,Tarbert, Co. Kerry
One of a selection of photographs of Tarbert and environs taken in November 2003 by Kerry County Library.The house has a plaque indicating it as the family home of MacGreevy.A portrait of MacGreevy hangs in the sitting room along with family memorabilia.
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Lennox Robinson
This drawing appears in Lennox Robinson's autobiography Curtain Up(1942). Robinson and MacGreevy worked together in the early 1920s setting up the Irish Central Library for Students . Lennox Robinson was a noted playright and well-known literary figure.
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President Eamon De Valera opens the Mainie Jellett Exhibition
President Éamon De Valera and future President Cearbhall Ó Dalaigh at the opening of the Mainie Jellett Exhibition at Dublin's Municipal Gallery.MacGreevy and Bay Jellett ,sister of the artistare also in the photograph
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President Eamon De Valera opens the Mainie Jellett Exhibition