Éire: The Irish Nation - Vol.2, Nos.1-41 (January 19-October 25, 1924) [Together With] Sinn Féin - Vol.3, Nos.1-33 (November 1, 1924-June 13, 1925) by [IRELAND] [REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT] - 1924

Dublin & Manchester: The Irish Nation Committee / The Equity Press and The Wood Printing Works, 1924. First Editions. Bound volume containing:

Éire: The Irish Nation: Forty-one folio issues (45cm), bound into a plain blue-gray cloth binding; each issue 8pp; illus. Issues show light wear and toning to extremities, with occasional short edge tears and creases to corners; a half-dozen issues with "Subscription Expired - Final Copy" neatly rubber-stamped to upper front wrappers; final issue slightly oversized, with edges folded in; publication range written in pen on front endpaper, with title and date range in marker to lower front cover; well-preserved, Very Good+ overall.

Sinn Féin. Thirty-three folio issues (53cm), bound into a plain blue-gray cloth binding; each issue 8pp; illus. Mild tanning, with occasional small nicks and tears to text edges, and some minor flaking to same; publication range written in pen on front endpaper, with title and date range in marker to lower front cover; dampstain to cloth at upper left corner of rear cover; Very Good+ overall. Full final year of Éire, the official publishing organ of the Irish Republican Party, which ran from January 20, 1923 - October 25, 1924, continuing with its successor publication, Sinn Féin. "The Republican party was not unaware of the benefits to be derived from the publication of a newspaper reflecting its view. During its lifetime the organization brought out various weeklies. Éire: The Irish Nation, had been started in January 1923, to give the Republican version of events in the closing stages of the Civil War. This proved a boon to the Reorganizing Committee in its efforts to build up the new parety in the summer of 1923. A second party paper, Sinn Féin, originally appeared as a daily news-sheet during the August, 1923, general election campaign; but once the election was over it appeared only weekly. The new party had not been established very long before its leaders, eager to counteract the anti-Sinn Féin bias of the three national dailies, began planning the publication of a daily paper of their own with national circulation. They failed in their efforts to do this, the principal reason being, once again, lack of capital. The failure of the party here may have indirectly hastened its decline. Control of a national daily would have forced Sinn Féin to spell out its aims and policies in a more realistic and precise fashion...At the end of 1924, Sinn Féin and Éire merged, probably for circulation reasons, to form a new weekly, also with the title Sinn Féin. This paper in turn ceased publication and was replaced by a new weekly, An Phoblacht, in June, 1925" (Pynne ,Peter. The Third Sinn Fein Party: 1923-1926. p.39). Contents reprint the Declaration of Independence of Dail Eireann, statements and articles by President Éamon de Valera, extensive coverage on the treatment of Irish Republican prisoners and prison conditions, last letters of IRA soldiers prior to their executions, excerpts from Leaves from a Prison Diary by Proinnsias O'Gallchobhair, memorial celebrations for the Easter Uprising, and political cartoons by "Fionnbarr." OCLC finds 10 locations with any holdings of Éire (U.Kansas, Boston Coll., BL, Cambridge, Univ.College Cork, Trinity Coll. Dublin, Nat.Univ.Library Ireland Galway, Nat.Library of Ireland, Memorial Univ. Newfoundland, Nanterre-La Contemporaine). Sinn Féin held in 9 locations (Hoover Inst., Boston Coll., Wake Forest, Murdoch Univ., Nat.Library of Ireland Galway, Trinity Coll. Dublin, BL, Cambridge, Nanterre-La Contemporaine).