An anti-Treaty publicity item titled 'The branded arm of James O’Reilly Sketched from life by C de M'. The cartoon is attributed to Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). The sketch shows 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.
An image of a peat collector in the Sperrin Mountain range in County Tyrone. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Bringing home the turf / Seen in the Sperrin Mountains'. The photograph was taken by James Roland Bainbridge (1891-1967).
A view of St. Joseph's Cemetery in Cork. The cemetery was established by Fr. Theobald Mathew, the temperance campaigner and Capuchin friar, in 1830. The Church of Christ the King in Turner's Cross is visible in the background of the image.
