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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?’.

A full-length photographic print of Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922), the English-born Irish nationalist and Sinn Féin propagandist.

A poem acclaiming Roger Casement and castigating the circumstances of his trial and execution.

A printed list of Irish Volunteers killed in action during the 1916 Rising. (Volume page 37).

A photographic print of a large group of Royal Irish Constabulary members, possibly the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, more commonly known as the ‘Auxiliaries’, or ‘Black and Tan’ constables.

A photographic print of Royal Irish Constabulary officers at their depot in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. The image was probably taken shortly before the disbandment of the force in 1922.

A photographic print of the last Royal Irish Constabulary officers to be disbanded at their depot in the Phoenix Park in Dublin.

A photographic print of a Royal Irish Constabulary rugby union team. The print has numerals on some of the individuals in the group.

An image showing the arrival of King Edward VII and his wife Queen Alexandra at Phoenix Park Racecourse in Dublin in April 1904. The British sovereign arrived in Ireland on 26 April for an eight-day visit during which he attended several events and ceremonies in Dublin, Kilkenny, and Waterford.