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A photographic print Alfred White, a member of Na Fianna Éireann.

A photographic print of the Most Rev. Thomas O’Donnell (1874-1936), Archbishop of Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada).

An image showing women vacating their homes in Balbriggan in County Dublin. The photograph is titled ‘Refugees from the Irish Front’. The caption notes that the ‘population has been terror-stricken by the recent lawlessness which has caused so much damage’.

An image showing the evacuation of British troops from the Curragh Camp in County Kildare on 16 May 1922. A manuscript caption reads ‘The British leave the Curragh and Ireland – 1922’.

A photographic print of a British military inspection in the Royal Barracks (now Collins Barracks) in Dublin. The inspecting officer is General Sir John Maxwell (1859-1929).

A cheque for £35 11s 9d, payable to ‘Poblacht na hÉireann’, and signed by Cathal Brugha. The cheque was drawn on Bannc na Talmhan Teoranta (the National Land Bank) in Dublin and is dated 2 May 1922.

A postcard print of an image of a worshippers at a religious service to commemorate the centenary of Catholic emancipation held in the Phoenix Park in Dublin in June 1929. The image is credited to the 'Irish Independent'.

A postcard print of the Cenotaph monument on Leinster Lawn (situated on the Merrion Square side of Leinster House). The Cenotaph was unveiled on 13 August 1923 to commemorate both Arthur Griffith, the President of Dáil Éireann, and Michael Collins, the revolutionary leader who was killed during the Civil War. It was designed by Professor George Atkinson (1880-1941), the headmaster of the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Plaques showing Griffith and Collins in relief were placed at the base of the cross with an inscription taken from the Annals of the Four Masters which read ‘Do Chum Glóire Dé agus Onóra na hÉireann’ (For the Glory of God and the Honour of Ireland). Following the assassination of Kevin O’Higgins, a leading Irish Free State minister, in 1927, an additional plaque was fixed to the monument. The Cenotaph was replaced with a more permanent structure (designed by the OPW architect Raymond McGrath) in 1950.

A photograph an Irish National Army officer (identified as ‘Captain Heaslip’ in the original caption) conversing with a Major in the Worcestershire Regiment as the former prepares to assume guard duties at the Bank of Ireland building on College Green in Dublin. This was one of several significant public handovers from the British administration to the Provisional Government during 1922. The event was noteworthy as it was first time that the historic Bank of Ireland building (prior to 1801 it housed the Parliament of Ireland) was guarded by non-British troops.

A Charles Stewart Parnell Christmas greeting card (with oval portrait print). Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. seemingly also obtained Parnell’s autograph slip which he afterwards laid into the volume underneath the card.