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A clipping of an article referring to a recent decision to convert the former Dundalk Gaol into a Garda barracks.

A permit from the Dublin Metropolitan Police allowing Edmond Donelan, Rose Dale, Vergemount, Clonskea, to pass through the streets of Dublin (2 May 1916). The permit is signature-stamped by Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone (1863-1936) who served as chief commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) from 1915 to 1923. The page also has a used Dublin tramway ticket dated 22 April 1916.

A photographic print of a group of officers of the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) shortly before their disbandment in 1925.

A Dublin Fire Brigade tender near the Four Courts following the assault on the building at the start of the Civil War on 1 July 1922. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel garrison surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / the Four Courts, the republican fortress in Dublin, unconditionally surrendered to the Free State troops yesterday, and the garrison of about 150 are now in Mountjoy Prison / Photograph shows a fire engine at work’.

A clipping of two election fliers for the County Dublin constituency. The fliers were produced for Darrel Figgis (an Independent Pro-Treaty candidate) and Thomas Johnson (the Labour Party candidate). The advertisements appeared in the ‘Irish Independent’ (15 June 1922).

A clipping of a letter from the artist Paul Henry regarding the need to find an appropriate location in Dublin for a gallery to house the paintings from the Hugh Lane bequest. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (4 October 1922).