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A clipping of a memoriam poem to Teresa Brayton. (Volume page 103).

A flier with the text of a ballad memorializing Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork.

A flier with a ballad titled ‘In memoriam / Harry Boland, T.D., shot at Skerries, July 31st, 1922’. The first lines read ‘Harry Boland has died for the Cause that he loved, and our hearts with deep sorrow flows oe’r, In the service of Ireland his life blood has flowed, But his memory shall live evermore ...’.

A flier titled ‘In Memoriam Staff Captain Erskine Childers, IRA / Died for the Irish Republic, Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin, 24th November 1922’. (Volume page 30).

A printed memoriam sheet for Mick Radford, a republican who was killed by Free State forces on 22 June 1923. The text is signed ‘Larry de Lacy, The Jail, Wexford’

A clipping of a memoriam sheet for the republican soldier Liam Lynch who was shot and killed by Free State forces on 10 April 1923. The memoriam includes an extract from Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’.

A flier announcing the prohibitions on the import of biscuits, boot polishes and soap from Britain. The text reads ‘Civilians must help the active forces by striking an economic blow at England’. The article is signed off by Ernest Blythe, Minister for Trade.

A flier with the text of a republican ballad titled ‘If you're Irish, We're going to suppress you!’

A flier with the text of a satirical republican ballad titled ‘I don’t mind if I do by “The Rajah of Frongoch” (a nickname used by Jimmy Mulkerns).

A ticket for the Hill of Howth Tramway, operated by the Great Northern Railway Company, purchased on 24 April 1916, the first day of the Easter Rising. The ticket was purchased by the family of T. Molloy and his description conveys his personal memories of that day. It reads ‘Ticket issued for Easter Monday 1916 to one of a family going to Howth for the day. Coming to Howth Station to return home in the evening great crowds of people were told that no trains were running as there was trouble in the city. I, at the age eight, with my seven-year-old brother, & my father & mother, who carried another two-year-old brother, had, like many others, to walk home that night’.