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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.

Three resolutions passed at a meeting of the County Louth branch of the Property Defence Association.

An article reporting on the return by Captain E.J. Hitzen of some mementoes and ephemera he captured following the 1916 Rising. The items included the white flag used by Éamon de Valera during the surrender of Boland’s Mill. The article also refers to Hitzen’s recollections of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (5 April 1948).

A large crowd welcomes the return of Harry Boland (central figure with straw hat) to Dublin following his release from prison in 1917. Boland had been arrested following the 1916 Rising and was sentenced to five years penal servitude serving his time first in Dartmoor Jail and later in Lewes Prison.

A clipping of an account of the opening days of the Rising by Rev. Gordon Clements, The Manse, Donore, South Circular Road, Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’ (3 May 1916).