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A letter from N. O’Connor to the editor of the ‘Evening Herald’ refuting the assertion that his late brother (General Rory O’Connor) ‘left all his money to the Minister [Kevin O’Higgins] responsible for his death’.

An open letter signed by the Executive Council of the Second Dáil, transferring their authority as the Government of the Irish Republic to the Irish Republican Army Council. The document has the text in both English and Irish and is signed by Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, George Noble Plunkett, William Stockley, Mary MacSwiney, Tom Maguire, Cathal Ó Murchadha, and Brian Ó hUiginn.

A clipping of a tribute to Kevin Barry published in the ‘National Student’ (December 1945).

A clipping of an article from ‘Irish Opinion’, a weekly labour newspaper, questioning John Redmond’s role in ‘saving’ Kynoch’s munitions factory in Arklow, County Wicklow.

A copy print of the prominent Irish nationalist John O’Leary

A photographic print of a group of individuals at the grave of the Irish nationalist John Mitchel in the unitarian cemetery in Newry, County Down. A manuscript annotation on the reverse identifies the individuals. The group includes Kathleen Clarke, Eamon Donnelly, Pat Cunnigham and Edward ‘Eddie’ McAteer.

A clipping of an image of James Joseph Campbell delivering a Catholic social week lecture in the Mansion House in Dublin. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (24 March 1944).

A clipping of a photograph of a group of Irish prisoners held at a camp in Limburg, Germany. It is noted that Lance Corporal Eite, Royal Irish Rifles, was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Marne (September 1914). Lance Corporal Eite was employed at the Guinness Brewery prior to the outbreak of the war. It is also affirmed that Eite’s father resides at 31 Oxmantown Road in Dublin.

Instructions for local Sinn Féin clubs for 1921-2. The document divides up the work suitable for Sinn Féin Cumainn in different areas (divided into those in urban, rural or seaboard areas, those with ample hall accommodation, and those that can only act as an election or organising committee). Also provided is a list of appropriate books for Sinn Féin Club libraries.

A clipping of a poem by Padraic Colum eulogizing the late Arthur Griffith. The newspaper from which the clipping is taken is not given.