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 photograph of Muriel MacSwiney and Terence MacSwiney’s sisters Mary and Annie. The original caption is titled ‘The widow of Terence MacSwiney’ and refers to his death ‘after fasting for 73 days in Brixton Prison’. It also affirms that Muriel MacSwiney ‘collapsed after the long strain and was not with him when he passed out’. The image is credited to World Wide Photos.
A photographic print of a National Army soldier receiving treatment from a member of St. John’s Ambulance Brigade during the fighting in Dublin at the outset of the Civil War in late June/early July 1922.
An image of Irish National Army troops at Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin. Originally constructed for the British military in 1827, the barracks was the first military installation to be handed over to the newly formed Provisional Government on 1 February 1922.
A toasting card for a nationalist banquet held in the Rotunda in Dublin on 11 December 1883. Includes patriotic toasts to Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish Parliamentary Party, and the Irish National Press.
A pass permitting Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to travel ‘over the streets of Dublin by day and night’. The pass is authorised by Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt, Assistant Provost Marshal.
An image of female pipers on parade at the 1916 silver jubilee commemorations outside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade took place on 13 April 1941.
An image of the interior of Portland Prison in Dorset, England. The caption reads ‘Portland Prison, Inside the New Hall, showing exterior of cells / Iron ladders & corridors. Life saving nets etc’.