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A postcard print image captioned ‘St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham: The Waterfall’. (Volume page 149).

A clipping of the first page of ‘The Voice of Labour’ edited by Cathal O’Shannon (Vol. 1, No. 29, 15 June 1918).

A clipping of article titled ‘The Vineyard & the Labourer’s Wage’ by Tadgh Barry, a Cork-born journalist, trade unionist and nationalist politician. The article was published in ‘The Voice of Labour’.

A one-page typescript synopsis titled ‘The truth about Nurse Cadden / a play by Don Alwyn’.

A pamphlet and poem reflecting on John Hogan’s marble statue of the Transfiguration. The statue is held in Mount Argus Passionist Monastery in Harold’s Cross in Dublin. The poem asks the reader to remember the ‘weed-grown, cold [and] forgotten’ grave of the sculptor in the cemetery. The poetic tribute was written by John Clarke (1868-1934), a County Antrim-born nationalist and journalist who wrote numerous articles on Gaelic cultural revivalist subjects, often using the penname ‘Benmore’.

The printed text of the ‘The Song of the Legion of Rear-Guard’ written by Jack O'Sheehan. (Volume page 26).

A flier with the text of a ballad celebrating ‘The Smith of Ballinalee by ‘“Sean”, East Limerick’. Seán Mac Eoin's exploits as commander of the IRA's north Longford flying column, which carried out successful attacks on British forces at Ballinalee (November 1920) and Clonfin, near Granard (February 1921), earned him the sobriquet ‘the Blacksmith of Ballinalee’.

A flier with the text of a satirical republican ballad titled ‘The Rocky Road to Berlin’. The composition is credited to Cathal Mac Dubhghaill (d. 1926).

A report on a meeting of Irish socialists in the Mansion House, Dublin. The purpose of the meeting was to ‘congratulate the Russian people on the triumph they have won for democratic principles’. The speakers included Dr Kathleen Lynn, Constance Markievicz, William O’Brien, and Maud Gonne MacBride. The article reports that ‘The Red Flag’ was sung at the meeting. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (5 February 1918).

A clipping of a report on the outbreak of the rebellion in Dublin taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (25 April 1916).