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Cartoons attributed to Constance de Markievicz (1868-1927).
• A figure of Hibernia with arms behind her back and chained. Michael Collins (1890-1922), holds a gun to her head. Behind Michael Collins are a bishop and William Thomas Cosgrave, (1880-1965). In front of Hibernia and carrying a piece of paper with the words ‘Propaganda D.F.’, is Desmond Fitzgerald, (1889-1947). The caption reads: Carey Collins - Go down on your b------ knees without any more d-----d fuss swear allegiance to King George and his heirs. : Faker Fitzgerald - Don't listen to Devalera [sic]. I could tell you a lot about great great grandmother and Spanish gold. : The Bishop - Take any other oath that will get you out of your difficulties. : Comic Cosgrave - It was an awful joke talking about freedom, you know.
• The branded arm of James O’Reilly Sketched from life by C de M. View of an arm with the sleeve rolled up to expose branded marks. According to the printed statement on the accompanying page, Stephen Gorman aka James O’Reilly of Ballyblia, Ardee, County Louth, was arrested on 11 September 1922 while travelling on a weekend visit to Drogheda. He was arrested on suspicion that he had taken part in a republican demonstration in Ardee. He was then branded.
Notes: Title printed. Watermarks visible.
Physical description: 1 stencil print: roneo; 32.6 x 19.3 cm. (2 copies).

A photographic print of Aodh de Blacam. A manuscript note attached reads 'Please substitute enclosed snapshot in any future hue-and-cry for Aodh de Blacam as it is 25 years later and tactfully conceals absence of thatch'.

Photographic print of and Aodh de Blacam (left) and Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.. The print is signed by the photographer Adolf Morath (1905-c.1977).

A clipping of a report on the appointment of Monsignor Patrick J. O’Donnell, a Waterford-born priest, as Domestic Prelate in New York. The clipping is taken from the ‘Dungarvan Observer’ (26 August 1944). (Volume Page 32).

A clipping of an appreciation of the late Erskine Childers by Lily O’Brennan who acted as his personal secretary in 1921. The letter was addressed to the editor of the 'Irish Independent' but the clipping was seemingly taken from the ‘Irish World’ (22 December 1922).

A view of two inhabitants of the Aran Islanders off the coast of Galway on Ireland's western seaboard in about 1940.

An image showing the use of currachs to unload supplies for communities on the Aran Islands in about 1940. The print is titled ‘Aran contacts the World’.

A clipping of a photograph of Archbishop Daniel Mannix. The clipping is taken from an article giving the text of Mannix’s speech at the Rotunda in Dublin on 29 October 1925. The entire article is extant in the volume. The article was published in ‘An Phoblacht’ (30 October 1925).

The pamphlet comprises extracts taken from a ‘discourse at the Third Council of Baltimore, by Dr. John Ireland, late Archbishop of St. Paul, 10th November 1884’. Rev. Edmond O’Shea, Philadelphia, contends that the principles contained in Dr. Ireland’s speech offer a ‘full vindication by America’s foremost Statesman and Theologian of the Irish Republic proclaimed by Padraig Pearse and the Men of Easter Week, 1916, and ratified by Plebiscite of the Irish People, December 28th, 1918’.

A clipping of a photograph of Archbishop Paschal Robinson OFM, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. at the Institute of Journalists dinner in Dublin. The clipping is taken from ‘The Advocate’ (17 March 1938) published in Melbourne, Australia. It is noted that Fr. John Moynihan, the editor of ‘The Advocate’, is a brother of Fr. Senan.