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A satirical republican flier celebrating the demise of the pro-Treaty ‘Freeman’s Journal’ newspaper in 1924. The flier promotes a ‘funeral procession’ and notes that the newspaper ceased publication ‘from an acute attack of Clerical Intimidation, Softening of the Back-bone, and other painful disorders’. Reference is made to the former proprietors of the ‘Freeman’s Journal’, Francis Higgins (c.1745-1802), probably better known as the ‘Sham Squire’, and Sir John Gray (1815-1875).

A poem acclaiming Roger Casement and castigating the circumstances of his trial and execution.

A postcard print image of a large crowd assembled on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin. The caption to the original postcard image (printed by Chancellor Photographic Studio) reads ‘Irish Language Procession, September 19, 1909’. In the background of the print, the statue of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864), a nationalist politician and Irish language activist, stands in its original position near the junction of O’Connell Bridge with Westmoreland Street and D’Olier Street. It was moved to its present location on O’Connell Street in 1929.

A flier with the text of a republican ballad titled ‘If you're Irish, We're going to suppress you!’

A flier with the text of a ballad titled ‘A Recruiting Come-all-ye’. The ballad derides the recruitment of Irishmen into the British armed forces.

A flier with the text of a satirical republican ballad titled ‘War News by “The Rajah of Frongoch” (a nickname used by Jimmy Mulkerns).

A leaflet with the text of a lament for Thomas Ashe by Seán Ó Cathasaigh (Seán O’Casey). Printed in Dublin by Fergus O'Connor.

A republican leaflet addressed to ‘young women’ in Dublin asking to them to refrain from having British soldiers as romantic companions.

An election flier for Michael Staines for the Dublin St. Michan’s constituency at the 1918 general election. Staines was the Sinn Féin candidate, and he defeated John Dillon Nugent (Irish Parliamentary Party) in the contest. The flier was issued by W.J. Norman, 57 Dame Street, Staines’s election agent.

A flier with a text of a poem referring to Terence MacSwiney’s hunger strike at Brixton Prison.