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A postcard print of the River Barrow and New Ross in County Wexford.

A flyer condemning the 1916 executions and exhorting Americans to stay out of the First World War. “Thank God for Freedom's Martyrs in every Land and Age” is printed under the title.

A view of Newcastle Bridge (an eighteenth-century four-arch road bridge over the River Inny) near Ballymahon in County Longford. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Newcastle Bridge near Ballymahon, County Longford'.

A view of the town of Newport in County Mayo. The seven arches bridge (formerly a viaduct for the Achill branch of the Midland Great Western Railway line) and St. Patrick's Church are prominent in the image.

Newspaper clipping of an obituary for William Partridge (d. 26 July 1917).

A postcard print of a demonstration in Clogheen in County Tipperary in 1898. The demonstration commemorated Father Nicholas Sheehy (c.1728-1766), a local priest who was executed following what were widely believed to be false charges of involvement in agrarian unrest during the Penal Law era.

A flier supporting the campaign for the enfranchisement of women published by Lillian Metge (1871-1954), a Belfast-born suffragette and women’s rights campaigner.

An annotated photograph showing Noel Lemass (standing, in uniform, third from the right) at a bazaar in the Mansion House in Dublin.

A clipping of a report of a speech by Nora Connolly, the daughter of James Connolly, in St. Andrew’s Hall in Glasgow. The article is taken from ‘Forward’, a Scottish socialist newspaper (18 October 1919).

An image of North Gate Bridge (from Bachelor’s Quay) in Cork in about 1940. Designed by the architect Sir John Benson (1812-1874), the foundation stone for North Gate Bridge was laid in April 1863. The bridge was demolished in 1961 and replaced with Griffith Bridge named in honour of Arthur Griffith (1871-1922).