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A report of the operations of the Emergency Committee from 1 December 1881 to 25 January 1882. Reference is made to the placement of caretakers in charge of farms from which tenants have been evicted and to the assistance lent by the Committee in executing writs of possession on various properties.

A Republic of Ireland Bond Certificate (for $10) issued by Éamon de Valera during his American tour. This bond was issued to Hannah Ritchie and is dated 21 January 1920. The printed signature of Éamon de Valera has the unusual spelling of ‘de Bhailéara’.

A letter and notes from Conor A. Maguire re his article titled ‘Republican Courts’ in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969). Maguire provides some additional detail in relation to the photographic of the Republican Court sitting in Westport in 1920 (p. 383). The note reads: ‘I recognise John Kelly, later County Registrar, and J.C. Garvey, Solicitor, Castlebar, from whom I received the photograph after the Truce. He told me that he had arranged to have it taken and had kept it hidden behind the shutters in his office. Noticeable at the back are two of the IRA Police, easily identifiable, as they stand at attention with their caps on. One, I understand, was Seán Gibbons’

A handbill in the republican interest drawing a parallel between the executions carried out by the British government and the Irish Free State.

A copy print of a group of republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Irish republican prisoners / Hunger strike / Mountjoy Jail, October 1919 / second from right top row is Pádraig Ó Caoimh’.

A flier with the text of a manifesto signed off on by IRA prisoners Michael Kilroy and Michael MacGiollaruaidh, then on hunger strike in Mountjoy Jail. The text refers to the death of Terence MacSwiney in 1920.

A flier with the text of a poem by Maeve Cavanagh titled ‘Rescue’ referring to the imprisonment of Irish republicans.

Photographic print of a residential house. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘1913’. The location may possibly relate the area around Cullenswood House on Oakley Road in Dublin.

A clipping of an article reporting the resignation of Bartholomew Woodlock as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise (‘Irish Times’, 12 October 1894).

Circular reporting the resolutions passed at a meeting of the County Louth branch of the Property Defence Association held in Dundalk on 21 October 1881. The circular was issued by Townley Macartney-Filgate, honorary secretary.