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A ticket for the Hill of Howth Tramway, operated by the Great Northern Railway Company, purchased on 24 April 1916, the first day of the Easter Rising. The ticket was purchased by the family of T. Molloy and his description conveys his personal memories of that day. It reads ‘Ticket issued for Easter Monday 1916 to one of a family going to Howth for the day. Coming to Howth Station to return home in the evening great crowds of people were told that no trains were running as there was trouble in the city. I, at the age eight, with my seven-year-old brother, & my father & mother, who carried another two-year-old brother, had, like many others, to walk home that night’.

A photographic print of H.H. Asquith (1852-1928). The caption notes that Asquith was photographed at the Viceregal lodge in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.

An image of Colm and Máire Gavan Duffy, the children of George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951), an Irish politician, jurist, and solicitor, and one of the signatories to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. As the caption notes, the two are ‘photographed in Paris [in] 1920 during their father’s term of office as representative of the Irish Republic’.

A photographic print of the funeral of procession of Michael Collins in Dublin on 28 August 1922. The volume contains nine images of the funeral procession including images of Dublin Fire Brigade personnel and their horse-drawn vehicles and motor fire engines.

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.

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

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 photographic print captioned ‘Four Courts, 1916’.

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.