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A photographic postcard print of Kathleen Lynn with the three infant daughters of George Fullerton in July 1917. Known as the ‘Republican Triplets’, the children were named Kathleen, Grace, and Constance. The group includes on the left Dr Lynn (1874-1955) and on the right Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). As the card’s annotation suggests, George Fullerton (d. 1934) was a member of the Irish Citizen Army. During the 1916 Rising, he was wounded while attempting to escape from St. Stephen’s Green to the nearby Royal College of Surgeons building which had been occupied by the Irish Volunteers.

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 postcard with images of the ‘Enniscorthy Leaders’ of the Irish Volunteers in 1916. The individuals are named as Captain James Rafter, John Etchingham and Captain [Robert] Brennan.

A photographic print of children and civilians being evacuated from the school on Gardiner Street in Dublin at the outset of the Civil War.

A postcard print of the grave of Fr. Nicholas Sheehy in Clogheen in County Tipperary. Father Sheehy (c.1728-1766) was a local priest who was executed following what were widely believed to be false charges of involvement in agrarian unrest during the Penal Law era.

A photographic print captioned ‘Four Courts, 1916’.

An image of a destroyed building. No location is given but it is likely part of the Four Courts complex in Dublin. The building was largely destroyed during the assault by Provisional Government forces at the outset of the Civil War.

A studio photographic print of Fr. James Cullen SJ, a Jesuit priest, and the founder of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.

A studio photograph of Fr. Patrick Kavanagh OFM, a Franciscan friar and historian of the 1798 rebellion. A manuscript caption reads ‘Father Kavanagh OFM / Historian of ‘98’

A photograph of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (second from left) with two unidentified republicans in Freemasons’ Hall (or ‘Masonic Hall’) on Molesworth Street in Dublin. The two Capuchin friars visited the Hall following its seizure by anti-Treaty republicans in April 1922.