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A clipping of a photograph of a horse killed in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin during the Easter Rising. The caption credits the image to the ‘Illustrated Sunday Herald’.

A view of a horse-drawn harvester in about 1955. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Near the end of its hay day'.

An image of a farmer using a horse-drawn plough in rural Ireland.

‘Hotel Metropole and Post Office, Dublin. Before and After’. In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the Scottish photographic publishers Valentine and Sons issued a series of postcard images depicting the destruction of buildings on Sackville Street and at other locations around Dublin.

A ticket for the Hill of Howth Tramway, operated by the Great Northern Railway Company, purchased on 24 April 1916, the first day of the Easter Rising. The ticket was purchased by the family of T. Molloy and his description conveys his personal memories of that day. It reads ‘Ticket issued for Easter Monday 1916 to one of a family going to Howth for the day. Coming to Howth Station to return home in the evening great crowds of people were told that no trains were running as there was trouble in the city. I, at the age eight, with my seven-year-old brother, & my father & mother, who carried another two-year-old brother, had, like many others, to walk home that night’.

An image of hurlers at St. Enda’s School, or Scoil Éanna, a secondary school for boys established by Pádraig Pearse in 1908.

A flier with the text of a satirical republican ballad titled ‘I don’t mind if I do by “The Rajah of Frongoch” (a nickname used by Jimmy Mulkerns).

A flier with the text of a republican ballad titled ‘If you're Irish, We're going to suppress you!’

File containing illustrations for 'The Capuchin Annual' by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. (1910-1958). These humorous black-ink drawings depict aspects of Capuchin Franciscan life and were regularly published in the 'Annual'. Fr. Gerald also served as assistant-editor of the publication. The themes include Christmas festivities, pranks and mischiefs involving Capuchins (some of the friars depicted, including Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., were known to Fr. Gerald), sports, music, everyday chores and religious rituals.

Metal stereotypes (set on wooden blocks) of illustrations (many by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. with some by Grace Perry) of Franciscan life published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The themes include Christmas festivities, pranks and mischiefs involving Capuchins (some of the friars depicted, including Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., were known to Fr. Gerald), sports, music, everyday chores and religious rituals. Several of the blocks depict more general aspects of religious devotion including representations of saints, the nativity, symbols and crests, missionaries and the clergy. Some of the blocks have annotations on the reverse indicating the theme of the illustration. These include:
• ‘This place is holy’.
• ‘Joy in the struggle’.
• ‘St. Francis of Assisi / the builder’.
• ‘People in love’.
• ‘Building together’.
• ‘Call to praise’.
• ‘Peace and goodness’.
• ‘St. Francis and the Wolf’. The cover illustration of 'The Capuchin Annual' by Seán O’Sullivan RHA.
• Richard King at work on a Station of the Cross in his studio.
Some of these stereotype blocks were found in box marked with an annotation suggesting that they had been returned from ‘Kelly’s Printers’.