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A letter from N. O’Connor to the editor of the ‘Evening Herald’ refuting the assertion that his late brother (General Rory O’Connor) ‘left all his money to the Minister [Kevin O’Higgins] responsible for his death’.

A clipping of a report on the decision of the British government to ban all travel between Great Britain and Ireland. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (3 March 1944).

A clipping of an image of James Joseph Campbell delivering a Catholic social week lecture in the Mansion House in Dublin. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (24 March 1944).

A postcard print captioned ‘The Sinn Fein Revolt in Dublin. the First and Only copy of “The Irish War News” issued by the Sinn Feiners’. ‘Irish War News’ was published by the republicans occupying the General Post Office in Dublin during the 1916 Rising.

A photographic print of destroyed buildings on O’Connell Street after the 1916 Rising.

A copy of ‘Prison Bars / an organ of the Women’s Prisoners Defence League’ (No. 19, November 1938). This edition includes articles Maud Gonne MacBride and Mary MacSwiney.

A handbill with the lyrics for ‘MacGuinness's March’. The item is an electoral propaganda leaflet produced for Joseph McGuinness in the South Longford by-election of 1917.

A membership certificate for the ‘Wolfe Tone and Ninety Eight Memorial Association’. The document presents four scenes broadly connected with the 1798 rebellion with titles: ‘Cave Hill Compact, June 11th, 1795; Dublin, 23rd July, 1803; French Landing at Killala, August 22nd 1798; Foundation stone, National Memorial, S. Green Dublin, laid August 15th 1898’.

A copy print of an engraving of Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c.1655-1693), an Irish Jacobite soldier. The source of the original print is not given but it likely dates to the mid-eighteenth century. A note states that the likeness of Sarsfield is derived from the ‘original picture in the possession of Sir Charles Bingham Bart. of Castlebar in the County of Mayo, in the Kingdom of Ireland’.

A photographic print of a National Army soldier receiving treatment from a member of St. John’s Ambulance Brigade during the fighting in Dublin at the outset of the Civil War in late June/early July 1922.