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A flier with the text of a ballad celebrating ‘The Smith of Ballinalee by ‘“Sean”, East Limerick’. Seán Mac Eoin's exploits as commander of the IRA's north Longford flying column, which carried out successful attacks on British forces at Ballinalee (November 1920) and Clonfin, near Granard (February 1921), earned him the sobriquet ‘the Blacksmith of Ballinalee’.

The printed text of the ‘The Song of the Legion of Rear-Guard’ written by Jack O'Sheehan. (Volume page 26).

A copy of 'The Spark' of 23 April 1916 (Vol. III, no. 64).

The spires of the Church of Ireland Cathedral of Saint Fin Barre as seen from the Sunday's Well district in Cork.

A view of the tower of the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne (also known as the North Cathedral) in the Shandon district of Cork in about 1945. The photograph was taken from atop the bell tower of the Anglican Church of St. Anne just a short distance away.

The clock tower of the Anglican Church of St. Anne, containing the famous 'Bells of Shandon', in Cork.

An image of the clock tower of the Anglican Church of St. Anne, containing the 'Bells of Shandon', in Cork. A typescript annotation on the reverse reads 'Famous Shandon Church and steeple bathed in Spring sunshine'. The image is credited to Liam Kennedy, 48 MacCurtain Street, Cork.

A pamphlet and poem reflecting on John Hogan’s marble statue of the Transfiguration. The statue is held in Mount Argus Passionist Monastery in Harold’s Cross in Dublin. The poem asks the reader to remember the ‘weed-grown, cold [and] forgotten’ grave of the sculptor in the cemetery. The poetic tribute was written by John Clarke (1868-1934), a County Antrim-born nationalist and journalist who wrote numerous articles on Gaelic cultural revivalist subjects, often using the penname ‘Benmore’.

A one-page typescript synopsis titled ‘The truth about Nurse Cadden / a play by Don Alwyn’.

A view of some mountain tunnels on the Kenmare to Glengarriff road on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork.