A clipping of an image from the ‘Sunday Herald’ (7 May 1916) purporting to show a ‘Dublin street battle actually in progress’ during the Rising. The caption also suggests that the image is ‘the only snapshot yet published of the fighting in Dublin’.
An image of a group of Capuchin friars in the front garden of Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Students, Ards'. The group includes Fr. Conrad O'Donovan OFM Cap. and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.
A clipping of an article referring in critical terms to the praise given to Éamon de Valera and his government by the Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945). The article is taken from the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ (28 March 1944).
A photographic print of the surviving members of the First Oireachtas held in 1897. The photograph was taken in College Park in Dublin in 1947. The group includes Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Seosamh Ó Conchubhair, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’), and Seamus MacManus.
An image of Taaffe’s Castle in the coastal town of Carlingford in County Louth in about 1950. This fortified town house was purportedly built in the early sixteenth century by the Taffee's, an affluent merchant family.
A telegram from Nora Ashe which reads ‘Prisoners all here. Frank [Fahy] in great form’. The telegram is most likely to addressed to Frank Fahy’s wife (Anna Fahy) in Tralee, County Kerry.
A telegram referring to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty by Dáil Éireann on 7 January 1922. The telegram reads ‘Roche, Presbytery, Winchester St., [St Helier] Jersey / Treaty ratified majority seven / Jim’. (Volume page 152).
A view of (front) Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. and (directly behind) Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. walking in a temperance procession. A large banner depicting Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856), the 'Apostle of Temperance', is prominent in the procession.