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An account book of the Dublin City & County Board of the Irish Volunteers. The account is with the Munster and Leinster Bank Ltd., Dame Street, Dublin. A manuscript title on the front cover reads ‘Dublin Co. Volunteers / Dublin City & Co. Board / 26 Great Brunswick Street / 2 Dawson Street / Dublin / Treasurer / Frank Fahy’. The entries cover the period from 31 October 1915 to 30 June 1916. Includes references to many transactions on the account made by Philip Bernard Joseph Cosgrave (1884-1923), and to entries made by ‘Byrne’, ‘Hanarhan’, 'Hannigan', and others.

A series of postcard prints of the Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Quarr on the Isle of Wight.

A leaflet with the text of a republican ballad celebrating Éamon de Valera.

An anti-Treaty flier rebuking several leading Free State politicians.

A flier with the text of a ballad titled ‘A Recruiting Come-all-ye’. The ballad derides the recruitment of Irishmen into the British armed forces.

A portrait photograph of a elderly lady smoking a pipe in Dublin in about 1945.

A linen weaver at work in Belfast in about 1935.

A biographical sketch of the life of Dom Columba Marmion OSB titled ‘A Great Irish Benedictine’. The sketch appears to be incomplete (p. 24/26). The remainder of the typescript is a compilation article on various monastic sites associated with Saint Columbanus in Italy including Bobbio Abbey.

A fruit seller on Shandon Street in Cork in about 1930.

A photographic print of an election poster encouraging the public to vote for W.T. Cosgrave as Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny city in the parliamentary by-election in 1917. Cosgrave, who was a veteran of the 1916 Rising, was victorious in the by-election, defeating John Magennis of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Cosgrave would go on to serve for ten years (from 1922-32) as President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.