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A handbill with the lyrics for ‘MacGuinness's March’. The item is an electoral propaganda leaflet produced for Joseph McGuinness in the South Longford by-election of 1917.

A view of Macroom Castle on the banks of the River Sullane in County Cork in about 1930. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads '"Reflections", Macroom, Co. Cork / by Ita McNally, 11 South Mall, Cork'.

A view of the ruins of Macroom Castle in County Cork in about 1963.

A photographic print of Maggie Dirrane (born Maggie Tom Ní Mhaoláin, 1899-1995), an Irish actress most noted for her role in the documentary film ‘Man of Aran’ (1934).

An information flier on the Mainie Jellet travelling scholarship fund established to perpetuate the memory of her ‘inspiring work as a teacher and friend of the younger generation of Irish artists’.

A photographic print of Máirín Cregan (the wife of James Ryan) and her family. The print is credited to Lafayette Studios.

An image of official ceremony at the Mansion House in Dublin during the 31st International Eucharistic Congress. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alfie Byrne (1882-1956), is in attendance.

Manuscript transcript of Robert Emmet’s ‘Speech from the dock’ (1803) by Terence MacSwiney. The text is a copy by MacSwiney of an Irish translation of Emmet’s speech made by Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’). The text was later bound into a volume by Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Gilt title to spine reads ‘Manuscript copy by Terence MacSwiney of Robert Emmet’s speech’. A manuscript addition suggests that the original translation by Ó Murchadha was published in ‘Fáinne an Lae’ in May 1899.

Notes in both English and Irish probably written by Patrick Pearse. Includes a sketch, possibly of the medieval Christian monastery on St. Macdara’s Island off the coast of County Galway. Also includes references to St. Enda, a sixth-century saint who founded a Christian monastic settlement on Inis Mór, and Mochuda of Lismore who ‘did fishing’.

A printed copy of Thomas MacDonagh’s poem ‘Marching Song of the Irish Volunteers’.