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A calling card of P.H. Pearse, St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham. Manuscript signature of Ėamon de Valéra on reverse.

Statement titled 'Partition' issued by the Pro-Treaty Government Publicity Department suggesting that Éamon de Valera 'was aware of the "Ulster" clauses of the Treaty long before the Treaty was signed, and that he made no protest; that he had assured Mr. Lloyd George that force would not be used against "Ulster" in order to bring the six counties into a United Ireland ...'.

Pass signed by Major J.W. Morel, Assistant Provost Marshal, Dublin, permitting Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. ‘to travel in the streets of Dublin on duty and to visit prisoners where allowed’. Stamped and dated. With un-stamped permit allowing Fr. Columbus ‘to travel anywhere in the City and visit prisoners in Richmond [Barracks]’. Indecipherable signature at bottom of pass.

Passport of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. issued by the British Foreign Office. Fr. Dominic’s age is given as 36, his profession as a Roman Catholic Clergyman and is defined as a ‘British-born subject’. With half-length portrait photograph pasted into document. The ink stamps on the passport indicate that Fr. Dominic travelled through France and Belgium in 1919.

The newssheet is titled ‘No. 1’, and urges the ‘men of the Free State Army to read what your English Allies think of you’.

List of approximately 100 names with various annotations. Listed individuals include Arthur Griffith, Sean Connolly, ‘Miss [Grace] Gifford’, Garret Holohan, John O’Mahony and ‘[de] Valera’. Annotations such as ‘K’ and ‘R’, presumably standing for Richmond and Kilmainham, appear beside some of the individuals listed.

A photographic print of the wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy in June 1917. In February 1917 MacSwiney was deported from Ireland and interned in Shrewsbury and Bromyard internment camps until his release in June 1917. It was during his exile in Bromyard that he married Muriel Murphy, a member of a wealthy brewing family in Cork. Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. an Irish Capuchin friar (2nd row, third from the right), was the celebrant at the wedding.

Photographic postcard print of a half-length portrait of Mrs Joseph Plunkett (Grace Gifford) ‘who married Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Prison a few hours before his Execution on May 3rd, 1916’. Printed and Published by the Powell Press, 22 Parliament St., Dublin.

Photographic postcard print of the study hall of St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, founded by Patrick Pearse.

Photographic print of Con Colbert seated and dressed in an Irish Volunteer uniform.