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A copy print of a group of republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Irish republican prisoners / Hunger strike / Mountjoy Jail, October 1919 / second from right top row is Pádraig Ó Caoimh’.

A flier with the text of a manifesto signed off on by IRA prisoners Michael Kilroy and Michael MacGiollaruaidh, then on hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail. The text refers to the death of Terence MacSwiney in 1920.

A flier with the text of a poem by Maeve Cavanagh titled ‘Rescue’ referring to the imprisonment of Irish republicans.

A clipping of an article reporting the resignation of Bartholomew Woodlock as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise (‘Irish Times’, 12 October 1894).

An article reporting on the return by Captain E.J. Hitzen of some mementoes and ephemera he captured following the 1916 Rising. The items included the white flag used by Éamon de Valera during the surrender of Boland’s Mill. The article also refers to Hitzen’s recollections of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (5 April 1948).

A clipping of an account of the opening days of the Rising by Rev. Gordon Clements, The Manse, Donore, South Circular Road, Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’ (3 May 1916).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) by Professor William Magennis. The article was published in ‘Model Housekeeping’ (February 1936).

A clipping of a report on a meeting of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland at which the country’s right to the paintings in the Hugh Lane Bequest was asserted. The article was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (31 March 1949).

An anti-Treaty republican handbill. The text reads ‘Mr. [William T.] Cosgrave stated on Sunday in Dublin, that the Republican Hunger-strikers are in jail because life and property were not safe while they were at large. … During the past six months, sixteen Free State Soldiers have been convicted in the criminal courts for robbery under arms and murder. .. Not even one Republican soldier has been charged with any of these offences. Who then are the robbers?’.