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A republican handbill with the text of a ballad titled 'A Dublin Battle Ditty' referring to the attack by the forces of the Provisional Government on the Four Courts and the ensuing fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922.

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.

A flier advertising a lecture by Constance Markievicz in San Francisco in the United States on 7 May 1922.

A one-off Anti-Treaty publication produced on a duplicating machine with caricatures of Sir Alfred Cope, Cosgrave, Mulcahy, Walsh, Blythe, Fitzgerald, etc. The drawings are attributed to Constance de Markievicz (1868-1927).
The publication includes caricatures of:
Séan Ó Muirthile, member of the Supreme Council of the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood) 1916, Head and shoulders.
Desmond Fitzgerald, (1889-1947), Minister for External Affairs 1922-1927 and Minister for Propaganda outside the cabinet, August 1921. Described as ‘Liar in Chief to Publicity Department. Slave-State’. Head and shoulders, full face.
Ernest Blythe (1889-1975), Minister of Posts and Telegraphs: ‘The importance of being Earnest …’.
J.J. Walsh: ‘The man of “letters” with the “mailed” fist;
Richard Mulcahy: ‘haunted by the dreams of prisoners murdered by his troops’;
W.T. Cosgrave: ‘Jester in chief to the Freak State as seen in the Empire’.

An Anti-Treaty handbill imploring Free State soldiers to ‘come out from the Free State Army at first opportunity, and renew your allegiance to the Old Love’.

A satirical republican flier on the demise of the pro-Treaty 'Freeman's Journal' newspaper. The flier promotes a 'funeral procession' for the paper and notes that it ceased publication 'from an acute attack of Clerical Intimidation, Softening of the Back-bone, and other painful disorders'. Reference is made to the former proprietors of the newspaper, Francis Higgins (c.1745–1802), probably better known as the 'Sham Squire', and Sir John Gray (1815-1875).

A republican cartoon by Constance Markievicz published during the Civil War affirming that Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins are ‘marching heads up into the Empire over the bodies of their murdered Comrades’.

An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'I am an Irish Republican but ...'

An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Merciless tigers in their dealings with unarmed Republican prisoners. Spineless worms in their dealings with English ministers. That's what O'Higgins and Mulcahy are'.

Letter from a General Staff Officer, National Army Headquarters, Portobello Barracks, to the editor of the 'Evening Herald', returning a copy (enclosed) of a republican publicity feature titled 'Mr. Kevin Higgins' attacks on President De Valera'. The National Army officer affirms that the publication of this feature has not been permitted.