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A large group of Irish prisoners detained in Stafford Jail in England following the 1916 Rising. The print is annotated on the reverse: ‘photograph believed to be the largest group of 1916 men taken’. Stafford Jail was converted for use as a military detention barracks and was used to hold Irish internees before their transfer to Frongoch Internment Camp in North Wales.

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.

A photograph of a large crowd outside Westland Row Station (now Pearse Station) in Dublin, awaiting the return of released republican prisoners. Many of the prisoners had fought in the Easter Rising of 1916.

An image of Arthur Griffith and Éamon de Valera leaving the Mansion House Anti-Conscription Conference in Dublin.

A photographic print of Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (1861-1935) with Irish Free State soldiers inspecting damage caused after the attack on the Four Courts in Dublin in July 1922.

A signed print of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). The card is signed ‘Constance de Markievicz, I.R.A.’ and is dated 4 March 1918. The postcard image is credited to the Lafayette Studio, Dublin.

Countess Markievicz with a group of Fianna Éireann members, the youth organisation she helped found with Bulmer Hobson in 1909. Seán Heuston, later executed for his part in the 1916 Rising, is seated in the first row, the fourth individual from the right.

A photographic print of Constance Markievicz (central figure behind the pipers) on a march in support of the election campaign of W.T. Cosgrave in Kilkenny in August 1917.

Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, Wales, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Frongoch was described as the ‘University of the Revolution’. Among the internees in the camp were leading republicans such as Michael Collins, Terence MacSwiney, Richard Mulcahy, and Gerry Boland.

An image of Éamon de Valera on the steps of Ennis Courthouse following his victory in the East Clare by-election in July 1917.