An election flier printed during the Dublin College Green by-election which was held on 11 June 1915. The flier was produced by John Dillon Nugent (1869-1940), a Dublin Corporation councillor and a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The flier accuses Nugent’s opponent Thomas Farren (1879-1955), a leading trade unionist, of ‘Larkinism’ and pro-German sympathies.
An Anti-Treaty fly poster probably referring to the Free State attack on the Four Courts. It reads: EASTER WEEK REPEATS ITSELF THE IRA STILL DEFENDS THE REPUBLIC.
An election flier for Michael O'Mullane, a Sinn Féin politician, referring to Noel Lemass who 'has been brutally murdered by agents of The "Free" State'. The flier asks the 'Electors of South Dublin show your disapproval of all such hellish acts by recording your vote for Michael O'Mullane'. Published in Dublin by Joseph Clarke.
Election flier for the Labour Party for Dublin City, North. The flier outlines the party's policies and is titled 'Vote 1 O'Carroll / Labour Candidate'.
The newspaper contains reports of Civil War hostilities and to the messages of sympathy which are still being received following the death (22 Aug. 1922) of Michael Collins.
The file contains the issue: 1 Nov. 1920 (no. 11,442) referring to the execution of Kevin Barry in Mountjoy Jail. Front page reads: ‘Subsequently Father Albert [Bibby], OSFC, succeeded in visiting the prisoner, who again saluted when the priest left him’.
A propaganda handbill highlighting the support of Father Matt Ryan, PP, Knockavilla, Tipperary, ‘the famous “General” in the Land War Campaign’, for the Sinn Féin candidate in the South Longford by-election.
First anniversary card ‘for the repose of the souls of the following Irishmen who were executed by English Law’. Hand coloured, tricolour and green flag over crossed pikes. Interlacing ribbon reads: ‘Our Prayers Daily'.
Flier for a commemorative event organised by the Corporation of Cork to mark the deaths of Tomás Mac Curtain and Terence MacSwiney, former Lord Mayors of the city.