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A clipping of images showing the destruction on O’Connell Street after the 1916 Rising. The photographs were taken from atop Nelson’s Pillar.

A clipping showing scenes from a makeshift hospital in Dublin Castle following the 1916 Rising. The clipping also has an image of Patrick Pearse ‘styled “Commandant-in-Chief” of the Army of the Republic and “President” of the provisional government’.

A flier produced for Thomas Harris, the Fianna Fáil candidate, in the Kildare by-election held in June 1931.

A flier produced for Thomas Harris, the Fianna Fáil candidate, in the Kildare by-election held in June 1931.

A republican handbill comparing the treatment of Irish prisoners held by the Free State authorities with those detained by the administration in the Northern Ireland. The leaflet suggests that both administrations are ‘puppets’ of England.

A ticket for the Hill of Howth Tramway, operated by the Great Northern Railway Company, purchased on 24 April 1916, the first day of the Easter Rising. The ticket was purchased by the family of T. Molloy and his description conveys his personal memories of that day. It reads ‘Ticket issued for Easter Monday 1916 to one of a family going to Howth for the day. Coming to Howth Station to return home in the evening great crowds of people were told that no trains were running as there was trouble in the city. I, at the age eight, with my seven-year-old brother, & my father & mother, who carried another two-year-old brother, had, like many others, to walk home that night’.

A photographic print of children and civilians being evacuated from the school on Gardiner Street in Dublin at the outset of the Civil War.

A photographic print of Constance Markievicz, Éamon de Valera, Darrell Figgis, W.T. Cosgrave, Alice Ginnell, and other republicans in Kilkenny. A manuscript caption gives the names of all the individuals in the group.

A photographic print of the funeral of procession of Michael Collins in Dublin on 28 August 1922. The volume contains nine images of the funeral procession including images of Dublin Fire Brigade personnel and their horse-drawn vehicles and motor fire engines.

A postcard illustration captioned ‘Scrubbing / I.R.A. Prisoners, 1916 / English Prison Scene’.