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An image of a military ceremony at Arbour Hill in Dublin. An annotation on the reverse of the print refers to the event as a ‘ceremony’. The soldiers have their rifles in the reverse arms position, so the event is most likely a funeral procession.

A photographic print of soldiers parading along College Green in Dublin on St Patrick's Day in 1939. Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), President of Ireland, is taking the salute on the right of the image.

An image of Éamon de Valera inspecting Irish military personnel on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the 1916 Rising and was held on 13 April 1941.

Photographic prints of an Irish military tattoo at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) arena in Dublin. The tattoo (essentially a pageant or display involving armed forces) was organised to raise funds for the Army Benevolent fund and to mark the contribution of the Irish Defence Forces (‘Óglaigh na hÉireann’) to the state during the wartime Emergency (1939-45). The reference to ‘Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill’s Army’ in the caption refers to the centrepiece of the tattoo, a recreation of O’Neill’s famous victory at the Battle of Benburb (5 June 1646) during the Irish Confederate Wars.

Minute book and attendance record book of the Dublin Battalions of the Irish Volunteers. Includes attendance records from January 1916 to April 1916. A three-page minute record from 22 February 1916 to 15 April 1916 appears to be in the hand of Patrick Pearse. This record includes references to ‘street fighting’, ‘protection on march’, and later ‘mobilization’. An entry on 18 March 1916 refers to ‘problems set re outposts protection [at] D[ublin] Castle’. Includes numerous signatures of Irish Volunteers in attendance at various battalion meetings in the first four months of 1916. Signatures include those of Thomas MacDonagh, Seán Heuston, Frank Shouldice, Frank Daly, Richard McKee, Thomas Slater, Piaras Béaslaí, Oscar Traynor, Thomas Hunter, Éamon de Valera, The O’Reilly (Ua Rathghaille), W. T. Cosgrave and William Pearse. The volume is extant in green, hard bound covers, with a gilt title reading ‘1916’ on the front cover.

The volume contains a series of postcard prints depicting aspects of the missionary work of French Capuchin friars (and female Franciscan religious) in India and in Africa, particularly in Somalia and Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

A photographic print of Molly Childers arriving in Boston for medical treatment in 1947. She was treated as a patient in Brookline Hospital in Massachusetts from 1947 to 1950.

A flier seeking subscriptions for a monument to commemorate Daniel Murray (1768-1852), the late Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. (Volume page 143).

An image of the ruined Mount Bolton House near Portlaw in County Waterford. A figure in clerical garb (possibly Fr. Richard Henebry) stands at the doorway.

A printed copy of Lloyd George’s letter to Sir Horace Plunkett referring to certain reservations about the powers which could be granted to an Irish Representative assembly during the Great War.