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A print titled ‘Small talk on Shandon Street, Cork’. The print is dated to c.1940. From the eighteenth century onward, Shandon Street was known as major site for commercial activity on the north-side of Cork. Some of the women in the image are wearing a traditional black shawl. Many working-class Irish women survived as street traders, selling fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothing. In Cork they were known as ‘the Shawlies’ because of the distinctive, traditional black shawls they wore on the streets.

A flier with the text of a republican ballad referring to the post office strike in 1922.

A republican handbill alleging that Michael Collins acquiesced in the permanent partition of Ireland.

A postcard print of Selskar Abbey (originally an Augustinian Priory and later an Anglican Church) in Wexford Town.

A clipping of a photograph of Second Lieutenant Guy Vickery Pinfield (8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars) who was killed in Dublin on 24 April 1916. The clipping is likely taken from the ‘Daily Mirror’ (May 1916).

A clipping of a photograph of Second Lieutenant Cecil Robert Walter McCammond ‘who rode through the crowd at Portobello Bridge, Dublin, at great risk, and decimated the rebels there’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.

A photographic print of Seán T. O’Kelly, Irish Envoy, entering the office of Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, to present Dáil Eireann’s request that Ireland’s case be given a hearing at the Peace Conference in 1919.

A clipping of a profile of the artist Seán O’Sullivan by Kess van Hoek. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (29 September 1951).

A clipping of an article reporting Seán O’Casey’s tribute to Jim Larkin, the veteran Irish trade union leader, revolutionary, and socialist. The newspaper from which the article was taken is not given.

A clipping of an article in which Seán Ó Faoláin gives his views on partition. Reference is made by Ó Faoláin to the ‘Orange Terror’ article in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943). The article was published in the 'Sunday Independent' (28 March 1948).