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A flier titled 'The Irish Republic Alive, Alive O’. (Volume page 31).

A flier with the text of a republican ballad deriding a petty attitude to Irish speakers among Justices of the Peace in Macroom, County Cork.

A flier with the text of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s lament for the Fenian Edward Duffy.

Portrait image with an annotated cover reading 'the late John Bowe, Kilkenny Friary'.

A clipping of a letter from the relatives of the late Seán Hales condemning the executions of republicans in reprisal for his murder. The signatories include his brother Donal Hales, Irish Consul in Genoa, Italy. The letter was addressed to the editor of the ‘Cork Examiner’ but the clipping is taken from ‘Eire’ (20 January 1923).

Postcard print of the library in the Capuchin Friary (Walkin Street, later Friary Street), Kilkenny.

An image of The Lough, a freshwater lake located to the south-west of Cork city centre. A Capuchin friar and another individual are walking at the lake's edge.

A view of the Lyric Cinema, James Street, Dublin in about 1950. The Lyric Cinema closed in 1962 and the building was later used as part of a commercial premises. It was demolished in 2002.

A flier with the text of satirical ballad titled ‘The Man from the “Morning Post”’. To be sung to the air of ‘When Irish eyes are smiling’.

A view of the Mercy Hospital (now Mercy University Hospital) in Cork in 1938. The caption to the photograph notes that the building was ‘once the Mansion House’, a reference to the fact that the oldest part of the hospital was built between 1764 and 1767 and that the original building served as the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Cork until 1842.