[Arthur Griffith sets out the Sinn Féin agenda, 1905.] Printed pamphlet: ‘The “Sinn Fein” Policy’. [Speech by him at the First Annual Convention of the National Council, 28 November 1905, proposing ‘the policy of the National Council’.]

From the papers of Sylvia and Robert Lynd. A scarce and historic document: copy in the NLI, and three on JISC (LSE, Oxford and BL, the latter also possessing a copy of the ‘Fortieth Thousand’). On the cover ‘Sinn Fein’ is written without the accent on the ‘e’; while the heading to p.5 has it with the accent. Cover carries a crude outline map of Ireland, crossed by two thick lines, with caption ‘The Cross of Gold’. A frail survival, on discoloured and worn newspaper stock, with chipping to edges and dogeared corners. The bottom of the leaf carrying pp.3 and 4 (the last two pages of the three-page introduction by ‘A. G.’) has been torn away, accounting in the loss of about ten lines from each side. The text proper begins, on p.5: ‘ Sinn Fe´in / At the First Annual Convention of the National Council, held in the Rotunda, on Tuesday, November 28th, 1905, under the Presidency of Mr Edward Martyn, Mr. Arthur Griffith proposed as the policy of the National Council: / “National self-development through the recognition of the duties and rights of citizenship on the part of the individual, and by the aid and support of all movements originating from within Ireland, instinct with national tradition, and not looking outside Ireland for the accomplishment of their aims.”’ Also included is second heavily-creased and torn set of the outer leaves of the pamphlet, i.e. the bifoliate carrying pp.1-2 and 31-2.