A photographic print of destroyed buildings on O’Connell Street after the 1916 Rising.
A photographic print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. among a large crowed at a public event. No information in relation to either the date or the location of the event is given, but it was likely in Cork. The central figure addressing the crowd may be Tomás MacCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork.
A photographic print of Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), President of Ireland, at a public ceremony. Both Éamon de Valera and John A. Costello are present in the background.
An image of Irish Volunteers posing with an Irish tricolour flag. No indication of the names of the individuals or the location of the photograph is given.
A photograph print of retired British Army soldiers outside the entrance to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin.
A bound volume containing newspapers clippings broadly covering significant events in the Irish Revolution. The volume contains clippings relating to Thomas Ashe, Tomás MacCurtain, the treaty debates, Jim Larkin and Irish trade unionism, executions during the Civil War, and the murder of Noel Lemass. Other (seemingly unrelated) clippings relate to the contested will of Richard Croker (1843-1922), an Irish American leader of New York City’s Tammany Hall organisation. The disputed will was the subject of a probate lawsuit in the Court of King’s Bench in Ireland. Many of the clippings are taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ and the ‘Manchester Guardian Weekly’.
A clipping of an article reporting on the funeral service of Kathleen O’Kelly, the mother of Seán T. O’Kelly, in St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. The clipping is taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (28 September 1923).
A clipping of tribute to the writer Dora Sigerson Shorter by Katharine Tynan. The tribute was published in the ‘Observer’ (13 January 1918).
A clipping of an appeal from the Church of Ireland Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin urging men to enlist in the British armed forces ‘in the present critical state of the battle for the world’s freedom’. Reference is made to the government’s purported intention to impose conscription upon Ireland. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (18 April 1918).
A clipping of an article by Lieutenant General Jeremiah Joseph ‘Ginger’ O’Connell on the handover of the Curragh military camp from the British Army to the Irish National Army. The article was written on the first anniversary of the handover. The clipping is taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (22 May 1923).