This section brings together over 200 booklets and pamphlets spanning more than a century of Irish republican publishing, from 1915 to the present day. The collection encompasses a wide range of material including Wolfe Tone Annuals, Easter commemoration booklets, prisoner welfare publications, hunger strike commemorations, ard fheis reports, and political education pamphlets produced by republican organisations, individuals, and civil rights groups across successive generations.

Among the most significant recurring publications are the Wolfe Tone Annuals alongside commemoration booklets that document how republicans remembered and mobilised around key moments in their history. Prison-related publications reflect the centrality of the prisoner issue to republican politics across the decades, from the internment camps of the 1940s to the H-Block crisis of the late 1970s and 1980s.

The collection draws on material produced by a broad range of organisations including Sinn Féin, the IRA, Republican Sinn Féin, the Irish Republican Socialist Party, and various civil rights and prisoner support groups. Together these publications offer an unbroken thread of republican political thought and commemoration from the aftermath of the Easter Rising to the modern era, making this the most extensive freely accessible collections of Irish republican pamphlet literature available online.

The Wolfe Tone Annual

1932 (9)	1933	1952
1959	1960	1961
1962	The Wolfe Tone Annual (1953)

Pre 1960

The Secret History of the Irish Volunteers by The O’Rahilly (1915)	’98 Song Book (1930s/40s)	The Murder Machine by Patrick Pearse (1959)
JJ O’Kelly’s (Sceilg) Presidential speech at the 1931 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis.	The funeral of O’Donovan Rossa (1915)	Robert Emmet’s Speech from the dock
How Does she stand – Patrick Pearse.	150th Anniversary of the 1798 Rebellion in Kildare (1948)	Antrim´s Patriot Dead 1797-1953 (6)
The Bodenstown Series No. 2 – From a Hermitage by P.H. Pearse	Souvenir of Visit to Kilmainham (1938)	The Rights of Ireland
The Exploited Island	The Hawk O’the Hill-Top Rossa (1945)	Bombs and their Reverberations (1939)
The Role of Industrial Workers in the Problems of the West By Peader O’Donnell (Circa 1950)

1960s

Labour & the Republican Movement by George Gilmore (1966)	Another version of Labour & the Republican Movement by George Gilmore.	The Glorious Seven (1966) (4)
Tribute to Thomas Davis – W.B Yeats (6)	Revolutionary Warfare – James Connolly (1968)	Labour and the Republican Movement (1966)
Republican Plot – St. Finbar’s Cemetery, Cork	Irish Above Politics – Máirtín O Cadhain (1964)

1970s

Freedom Struggle by the Provisional IRA (1973)	Freedom Struggle (1973)	The death of Brian Stewart (1976) (1)
Prison Struggle (1977) (1)	Butcher’s Dozen (1972) (1)	Majella O’Hare (1976) (1)
The Irish Prisoner	Ireland in Rebellion (1971)	Problems of the Irish Revolution (1972)
What Happened in Derry (1972)	No Parasan!	A British Army Murder (1975) (1)
The (Official) IRA Speaks (1972)	The Making of the Irish Revolution – Tomas Mac Giolla (1975)	Liam Mellows (1975) (4)
Irish Songs of Resistance (1978) (6)	H Block (1978) (4)	Battle of Belfast (1971)
The Flames of Long Kesh (1974) (4)	Provos – Patriots or Terrorists (1974)	Patrick Pearse Centenary Booklet (1979)
The Triangle of Death (1975) (1)	The Re-Conquest of Ireland (1972)	British Army and Special Branch RUC Brutalities (1972)
Terror Tactics of the British Army (1976)	On the IRA: Belfast Brigade Area (1972)	Uncharted Reef (1971)
Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1973)	Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1974)	Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1975)
Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1976)	Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1978)	Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1979)
Seamus Costello Commemorative Booklet	Liam Lynch Commemoration Booklet (1973)	Britain’s presence in Ireland
The Great Train Robbery Booklet (1977)	A State Conspiracy Booklet (1976)	Long Kesh Poems (1975) (10)
The Case for a Tribunal (1978)	Towards Ireland Britless – Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin (1978)	A New Nationalism for the New Ireland by Desmond Fennell (1972)
In the care of Her Majesty’s prisons – Hugh Feeney (1976)	Ireland, Free State or Nation by Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin (1977)

1980s

Seachtain ar an Bhlaincéad (1981) (2)	The H Blocks (1981)	The Troops Out Movement Song-Book (1980s)
They Shoot Children (1982)	Danny Barrett (1981) (4)	Lifers (4)
The Hillsborough Agreement (1986) (4)	The Supergrass (4)	Voices for Withdrawal (1980)
The Good Old IRA (1985)	The slaying of John Downes (1984) (1)	Deaths on the Streets of Derry (1982)
Deaths and Injuries by Plastic Bullets Aug 1981 – October 1982 (1982)	Bernadette Devlin McAliskey on the Irish Freedom Struggle (1983) (1)	Bodenstown ’86 (1986) (6)
Faoi ghlas ag Gaill Booklet (1981) (8)	Notes for Revolutionaries (1982) (8)	How to go (1989) (6)
The Nairac Affair (1981)	Eleven Galway Martyrs (1985)	Pearse The Psychology of a Volunteer (1980s) (8)
The Writings of Bobby Sands (April 1981) (8)	The Informers (1983)	Plastic Bullets and the Law (1985)
Hunger Strike Booklet (1980)	Women in jail in N Ireland (July 1981)	Political Status Now Booklet (1980)
Republican Lecture Series No. 7 – Economic Resistance	Republican Lecture Series No 6 – Election Interventions	Republican Lecture Series – The Role of Officers in Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1980)	Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1981)	Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1982)
Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (1983)	Sinn Féin Constitution and Rules (June 1983)	Signposts to Independence and Socialism – Gerry Adams (1988)
The Irish Question 1894 – the Cork Workers Club (1986)	The Irish Free State and British Imperialism – the Cork Workers Club (1986)	Michael Doheny Monument Booklet (1989)
The Case for a Free and United Ireland (1988)	The Irish Crisis 1921 – The Cork Workers Club (1986)	Irish Democracy, Republicanism, Nationalism and Socialism (1985)
An End to Discrimination in Employment (May 1987)	Republican Lecture Series No 3 – Nationalism and Socialism	Stop Strip Searching in Armagh Jail Booklet (Circa 1984)
Strip Searching Booklet (Circa 1984)	Portlaoise Prison Booklet (1985)	Questions of History by Irish Prisoners of War (1987) (1)

1990s

Charlie Kerins 50th Anniversary (1994) (3)	The Ulster Defence Regiment – The Loyalist Militia (1990) (6)	Brian Nelson & the Rearming of the Loyalist Death Squads (1993) (6)
Volunteer Seamus Twomey Tribute (4)	County Kilkenny 75th Commemoration of the 1916 Rising (1991)	George Plant 50th Anniversary (1992) (5)
Ballyseedy 75th Anniversary (1998)	Maghaberry Fact File (1991)(1)	Women in a War Zone (6)
Beir Bua (1998) (2)	In Whose Name? (6)	His name was Joe MacManus (1)
The 1981 Hunger Strikes Biographical Sketches (6)	Lagan enclave A history of conflict in the Short Strand 1886-1997 (6)	Éirí na Gealaí (1991) (8)
Seán McNeela and Tony D’Arcy Booklet (1990) (6)	Ballyseedy Commemoration Booklet (1998) (8)	The Story of the Irish peace process (6)
Where is our James Connolly (1991)	Republican Post 1976-1996 (1996) (1)	Vincent Conlon Booklet (1996)
Human Rights in Northern Ireland (1991)	Wicklow Gaol (1998)	Dublin 98 Programme (1998)
Bloody Sunday Anniversary (1995)

2000s

Who sanctioned Britain’s Death Squads? (2003)	The centenary of Na Fianna Éireann (2009) (2)	They Stood As One (2006) (6)
100 Years of Revolution (RSF, 2006) (6)	Irish Republican Felons Association 40th Anniversary (2004) (6)	The Story of Struggle Through Print (6)
Our Patriot Dead (2002) (6)	The Pearse Column & The Brookeborough Raid (2006) (6)	1916 90th Anniversary Booklet (2006) (6)
Three murders in Dublin Castle (2000) (8)	The First Hunger Striker Thomas Ashe (2000) (8)	The Forgotten Ten (2001) (8)
Short Strand 1981 Commemoration (2001) (8)	The 7 Signatories (2006) (8)	The Burning of the Custom House (2000) (8)
Na Fianna hÉireann Booklet (2009) (1)	Soldiers of the Resistance Campaign (2008)	Seán Russell Memorial Booklet (2009)
Laochra Luimnigh (2001)	James Connolly – Wrote for Today (2009)	The Mountjoy Martyrs (2001)
The UK Security Forces and the Murder of Patrick Finucane (2002)	Óglach Jimmy Kelly Booklet (1)	The Athlone Martyrs
Gerard O’Callaghan Booklet (2002) (1)	Marie Wright Booklet (2004)	Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Ard Fhéis Address (2002)
Frank O’Neill Booklet (2002)	JB O’Hagan Booklet (2011)	Failte Abhaile Booklet (2008) (1)

2010s

Sean McIlvenna (2014)	40 Years On – Colman Rowntree and Martin McAlinden (4)	The Story of the Falls Curfew (4)
Chicago 1981 Booklet (2011)	Republican Roll of Honour – Deans Grange Cemetery (2018)	Songs and Poems Inspired by the 1916 Rising (2015)

2020s

IRSM 50th Anniversary Celebration (2024) (7)

Misc

Belfast Brigade 1st Battalion Booklet	Frank Ryan – Journey to the Centre (6)	Essay on Irish history through verse (6)
Desmond Greaves (6)	Not Yet Emmet	The Orange Card
The Sleeping Giant	Pearse O Donovan Rossa funeral speech (8)	Massacre at Derry
The 1970 Sinn Fein Ard Fheis – An Analysis	Vol. Mairead Farrell (1)	Miriam Daly Booklet
H Block – The care and welfare of prisoners in Northern Ireland (1)	The Battle of Baillinamuck	The James Connolly Songbook
The Story of the Limerick Soviet	The Final Salute	Saor Éire – The unfinished revolution 1967-73
Irish Songs of Resistance	Handbook for Volunteers of the Irish Republican Army (1)	Jack Nalty Booklet
Irish Nationalism and British Imperialism	Fiery Cross – The Story of Jim Larkin	Unbroken Chain – Martin Calligan
The French Revolution and the Irish Struggle	Socialism Made Easy	Labour in Irish History
The Fenian Song Book	Ballads of Sinn Féin	The Boys Behind the Wire – Jim McCann
Ireland – Battlefront for Democracy	Counter Gangs – A history of undercover military units in Northern Ireland 1971-1976	Irish Songs of Resistance
Patrons	Irelands Trial of Shame	Tony Darcy and Seán McNeela Booklet
Cathal Goulding	Liam McMillen

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