Side Lights On Sinn Fein - May Connelly… 1920

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Limerick, Eire (Southern Ireland, Republic of Ireland).

Full title reads: "Side Lights on Sinn Fein. May Connelly was kicked and has her hair shorn for crime of speaking to Black and Tans".

C/U of young woman. She turns her head to show her hair - it has been cut very short. She smiles...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
16497
Sort Number:
G 0723
Time in/Out:
01:00:00:00 / 01:00:27:00
Canister:
G 723
Film ID:
922.01
Issue Date:
25/11/1920

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