"Desmond FitzGerald"

Date

c. 1916

Artist/Maker

Powell Press

Technique

Printed

Dimensions

Length: 14cm
Width: 9cm

Caption

A commemorative postcard of Desmond Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was an Irish revolutionary, post, publicist and Cumann na nGaedhael politician. He fought at the General Post Office during the 1916 Rising and was imprisoned after the surrender. He was released in 1918 when he was elected as a Sinn Fein MP for a south Dublin constituency.

Credit

Fermanagh County Museum Collection

Object number

FCM_2009_116