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A photographic print of Constance Markievicz speaking at a demonstration in Kilkenny on 19 July 1917. Markievicz was speaking at an event held in support of the election campaign of the Sinn Féin candidate W.T. Cosgrave.

A printed target card signed ‘Constance de Markievicz’ and dated 17 March 1922. The target card was used at twenty-five yards distance and shows eight perforations.

A photographic print of Constance Markievicz, Éamon de Valera, Darrell Figgis, W.T. Cosgrave, Alice Ginnell, and other republicans in Kilkenny. A manuscript caption gives the names of all the individuals in the group.

A copy print of an engraving of Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c.1655-1693), an Irish Jacobite soldier. The source of the original print is not given but it likely dates to the mid-eighteenth century. A note states that the likeness of Sarsfield is derived from the ‘original picture in the possession of Sir Charles Bingham Bart. of Castlebar in the County of Mayo, in the Kingdom of Ireland’.

A photograph of a sketch of James Ryan, a revolutionary and later a Fianna Fáil politician. The original sketch was drawn by Seán O’Sullivan (1906-1964) and is dated 1937.

A postcard print of the attendees at a sitting of the First Dáil on 10 April 1919. The names of the individuals are printed (in Irish) under the image.

A postcard print of the attendees at the first sitting of the First Dáil on 21 January 1919. The names of the individuals are printed (in Irish) under the image.

A photographic print of Darrell Figgis (seated, second row, fourth from the right) with a group of Irish republicans.

An image of the interior courtyard area of the Four Courts in Dublin following the attack on the building at the outset of the Civil War. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel garrison surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / Picture shows the barricade behind the inside gates after the surrender’. The republican forces occupying the Four Courts, commanded by Rory O’Connor, surrendered after two days of shelling by the National Army (28-30 June 1922).

A photographic print of (left) Douglas Corrigan (1907-1995) and James Montgomery (1870-1943) at a reception in Dublin on 24 July 1938. Corrigan was a pioneering American aviator who earned the nickname ‘Wrong Way’ after ‘accidentally’ flying across the Atlantic when his original intention was to fly a cross-country route from New York to California in July 1938. James Montgomery was the Irish film censor from 1923 to 1940.