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Original newspaper clippings relating to the Civil War assembled by the editors of 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file comprises clippings from the 'Cork Examiner' and the 'Evening Echo' and contains reports on hostilities between Free State forces and republicans mainly in Munster.
The file includes:
• ‘Heavy Firing in Limerick City / Encounter in Clare / Commandant Breen’s Declaration’, 'Cork Examiner', 13 July 1922.
• 'Cork Examiner', 15 July 1922.
• 'Cork Examiner', 30-31 July 1922.
• ‘Cork and Peace / Harry Boland Shot / Cork Coachmakers’ Strike’, 'Evening Echo', 2 Aug. 1922.
• ‘Manufacturing Atrocities / Protest by Free State Soldiers’. 'Cork Examiner', 4 Aug. 1922.

A large collection of metal printing blocks (stereotypes) prepared for illustrative purposes and publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. It is likely that some of the blocks were purchased from an engraving and printing company whilst many others were specifically commissioned for 'The Capuchin Annual'.

A flier with the text of a republican poem titled ‘The Flag on the G.P.O. / Easter 1917’ by J.J. Walsh. The first two lines of the verse read ‘Why gather the crowd in O'Connell Street? / Why throng all the people there? …’.

A leaflet with the text of a republican ballad celebrating Éamon de Valera.

A flier with the text of a republican ballad referring to the post office strike in 1922.

A flier with a ballad titled ‘In memoriam / Harry Boland, T.D., shot at Skerries, July 31st, 1922’. The first lines read ‘Harry Boland has died for the Cause that he loved, and our hearts with deep sorrow flows oe’r, In the service of Ireland his life blood has flowed, But his memory shall live evermore ...’.

A flier with the text of a song dedicated to Daniel Mannix, the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne. The first line of song reads 'A noble preacher, a splendid teacher ...’.

A printed copy of Thomas MacDonagh’s poem ‘Marching Song of the Irish Volunteers’.

An anti-Treaty flier rebuking several leading Free State politicians.

A republican flier with the text of a ballad be sung to the air of ‘Where the Blarney roses grow’. The first line reads ‘Twas over in Rathcormac, near the town of old Fermoy’. Cuthbert Lucas became Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade in Ireland in 1919. During the Irish War of Independence, in June 1920 he was captured by the IRA and held in East Clare. He was released four weeks later.