Postcard of the War of Independence memorial, Charleville, Co. Cork, Ireland

Postcard of the War of Independence memorial, Charleville, Co. Cork, Ireland

Postcard of the War of Independence memorial on Main Street, Charleville, Co. Cork, ireland

A Milton Series postcard of the War of Independence monument on Main Street, Charleville, Co. Cork, from the John James collection. This postcard was never posted. The monument was unveiled by in October 1930 by Eamon de Valera, a Nationalist leader in the Easter Rising of 1916 and of the War of Independence (1919-21), and the then (1930) leader of Fianna Fáil, the Republican Party, the political party who on the cusp of taking up the reins of power in the Irish Free State and would go on to dominate political scene in Ireland (south of the border) for most of the 20th century.

Perry O'Donovan

From the postcard collection of John James, Co. Cork, Ireland; Perry O'Donovan's 'Love from Cork: postcards of the city & county' (The Collins Press, 2013), pp. 172-3.

'Milton Series' was a trademark of Woolstone Brothers, London (postcard publisher)

1930-3 (the memorial was unveiled in 1930 and Woolstone Brothers, the postcard publisher, ceased trading in 1933)

Perry O'Donovan

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English

Postcard

'Love from Cork: postcards of the city & county' (The Collins Press, 2013), pp. 172-3.

Charleville, County Cork, Ireland

Postcard

1045 mm x 1480