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A republican handbill alleging that Michael Collins acquiesced in the permanent partition of Ireland.

The exterior of the Capuchin Friary in Sesheke in Zambia.

Banner illustration for articles celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1960), p. 193. Printed on a fashion plate board.

A flier with the text of a republican ballad referring to the post office strike in 1922.

A print titled ‘Small talk on Shandon Street, Cork’. The print is dated to c.1940. From the eighteenth century onward, Shandon Street was known as major site for commercial activity on the north-side of Cork. Some of the women in the image are wearing a traditional black shawl. Many working-class Irish women survived as street traders, selling fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothing. In Cork they were known as ‘the Shawlies’ because of the distinctive, traditional black shawls they wore on the streets.

A view of Sheares Street, near the Mardyke Park in Cork, in about 1940. The street was previously known as Nile Street before its name was changed to honour the Cork-born Sheares’ brothers, Henry (1753-1798) and John (1766-1798), members of the Society of United Irishmen who were executed following the 1798 Rebellion.

A clipping of a montage of photographs showing the relations of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. The clipping includes photographs of Mary Sheehy Kettle, a sister-in-law of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and the wife of Tom Kettle, an Irish Party MP and British soldier. The caption notes that though Sheehy-Skeffington was ‘shot as a rebel – his death is now the subject of a court-martial’. It also notes that his wife’s family (Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington) has many family members serving in the British armed forces including Lieutenant Eugene Sheehy who ‘fought with the [Royal] Dublin fusiliers against the rebels’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.

An aerial view of Shelbourne Park Football Stadium in Ringsend, Dublin, in September 1936. The print forms part of a series of photographs taken by the Irish Army Air Corps for the Geological Survey of Ireland.

A view of passengers relaxing on a promenade deck on-board a ship.

Steamships at the quay in Waterford in about 1935.