Dublin Metropolitan Police Movement of Extremists reports 1915-16

The National Archives of Ireland has released a series of records from Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP), labelled Movement of Extremists 29 May 1915 - 20 April 1916. The records refer to the period leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916, the moment when an Irish Republic was first proclaimed as a breakaway state from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Although the rebellion was crushed, it was a classic case for the British of winning the battle but losing the war, with the treatment and execution of the rebellion's leaders, coupled with the conscription crisis, soon leading to a massive change of sympathy from the Irish population towards the rebels' aims.

The Dublin Metropolitan Police's reports can be accessed at www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/chief-secretarys-office-crime-branch-dublin-metropolitan-police-dmp-movement-of-extremists-29-may-1915-20-april-1916/dmp-reports-june-1915/. A guide on how the archive conserved the reports can be found at www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/How-we-conserved-the-Movement-of-Extremist-reports.pdf, whilst a separate guide to the conservation of newspaper clippings held within the reports is available at www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/July-2015_v1.pdf.

(With thanks to @NARIreland and @archivesireland via Twitter)

Chris

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