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Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail in February 1923.

Prisoner (Seán McLoughlin) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 27 February 1923.

Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 4 March 1923.

Prisoner (Thomas McCarthy) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 5 March 1923.

Prisoner (Míceál Ó Gríobhtha) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 4 March 1923.

Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 27 February 1923.

Prisoner (Maurice O'Brien) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 8 March 1923.

The note reads: ‘Dear Mother, we had to surrender so we march to Phoneix [sic] Park, don’t forget to pray us’. A partially decipherable name and address is given on the reverse: ‘Matthew [ ], 12 Great Longford St, Dublin, off Aungier St.’ The item was found within an envelope annotated: ‘Farewell letter to His mother of a soldier of the I.R.A. who fought for Ireland in the Rising of Easter Week, 1916’.

Copy letter from Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to the editor of the 'Irish Catholic' protesting against the ‘obvious and unkind suggestion’ made in relation to Thomas MacDonagh in a recent edition of the paper. Fr Aloysius declared: ‘I feel bound to emphatically assert that his preparation for his last moment manifested a depth of Catholic Faith and a tenderness of piety most edifying and impressive and that he received the rites of his Church with a devotion which not easily be forgotten by The Priest who assisted him’

Two admission tickets to the first meeting of Dáil Éireann which took place in the Round Room of the Mansion House on 21 January 1919. In Irish: ‘Permit or ticket allowing bearer (unnamed) to attend the first assembly of Dáil Eireann on Tuesday 21 January 1919’. The tickets are signed by George Noble Plunkett.