One of the many files available to view at the UK National Archives at Kew relates to the disposal of the printing press at Liberty Hall seized following the Easter Rising and moved to Dublin Castle, then Ship Street Barracks, and later Islandbridge.
There was an attempt to see if it could be used by the British garrison in Cork but this came to nothing.
Towards the end of 1919, the press was set to the HMSO officers in London to disappear from sight.
A cursory look at some HMSO correspondence files from the period held at Kew did not throw any more light on what might have happened to the printing press. An item of research that will be kept on the back burner for later follow up work.
Another blog mentions James Connolly and the printing press at Liberty Hall in relation to a raid on The Gaelic Press at 30 Upper Liffey Street, Dublin. The file at Kew has a nice letterhead from The Gaelic Press signed by Joseph Stanley in relation to an attemp by new purchasers (Mr Leon Spiro of The Pearl Printing Works) to acquire back some of the items taken in 1916.
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