THOMAS MACDONAGH PAPERS

Work

THOMAS MACDONAGH PAPERS

Medium

print , printers block from the press that printed the 1916 proclamation of indepen

Acquisition date

2016

Details

In the Centenary year of the Easter Rising Matthew Russell presented family papers of Thomas MacDonagh to the Thomas MacDonagh Museum, Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, birthplace of the executed patriot. They include, inter alia, literary works and plays of Thomas MacDonagh, mss of published works of his mother, correspondence and a family bible. There is also a printer’s block from the machine (now lost) on which was printed the Proclamation of Independence, of which Thomas MacDonagh was one of the seven signatories in Easter Week, 1916.