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A postcard print of Finian Lynch. The caption notes that he was a captain in the Irish Volunteers and ‘Sentenced to Seath / Sentence Commuted to 10 Years’ Penal Servitude’.

A postcard print of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. The caption reads ‘Arrested on Easter Monday 1916, and shot without trial at Portobello Barracks, April 26th’.

A postcard print of Frank Fahy, commandant of the Irish Volunteers at the Four Courts during the 1916 Rising.

A postcard print of James Connolly. The caption reads ‘Commandant-General, Dublin Division / Executed May 9th 1916 / one of the signatories of the “Irish Republic Proclamation”’.

A postcard print of Major John MacBride. The print is credited to Keogh Brothers’ Studio.

A postcard print of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith. The print is credited to Curran, Dublin.

A postcard print of Michael DeLacy (Enniscorthy Volunteers). The caption notes that he was ‘Sentenced to Death / Sentence Commuted to Penal Servitude for Five Years’.

A postcard print of Michael O’Hanrahan. The caption reads ‘Author of the “The Swordsmen of the Brigade” etc / Executed in Kilmainham Prison, May 4th 1916’.

A postcard print of Dr Patrick McCartan. The caption refers to his escape to America on board a ‘tramp steamer’ and to his candidature for the King’s County (Tullamore) by-election (April 1918).

A postcard depicting the so-called ‘Ramillies Flag’ captured by soldiers of the Irish Brigade fighting for France at the Battle of Ramillies (23 May 1706). The Irish Brigade was comprised of soldiers of the defeated Irish Jacobite army who arrived in France in an event known as the ‘Flight of the Wild Geese’. The Battle of Ramillies (fought near a small village in what is now Belgium) was a significant Anglo-Dutch victory (led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough) over a combined French and Spanish force. Despite their defeat, an Irish officer managed to capture the remains of an English flag, referred to in the Irish captioned postcard as a ‘Bhratach Shasanach’. The flag remnant shows a gold harp on a pale blue background. It was subsequently presented to a community of Irish Benedictine nuns residing in the town of Ypres. It is now held by the Benedictine community resident in Kylemore Abbey in County Galway.