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An image of Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde) standing outside Áras an Uachtaráin in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, his official residence as President of Ireland.

An image of Douglas Hyde (1860-1949), President of Ireland, outside St. Andrew’s Church on Westland Row in Dublin.

A clipping of an article titled ‘Dr Eduard Hempel vacates Legation’ published in the ‘Evening Herald’ (8 May 1945).

A photographic postcard print of Kathleen Lynn with the three infant daughters of George Fullerton in July 1917. Known as the ‘Republican Triplets’, the children were named Kathleen, Grace, and Constance. The group includes on the left Dr Lynn (1874-1955) and on the right Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). As the card’s annotation suggests, George Fullerton (d. 1934) was a member of the Irish Citizen Army. During the 1916 Rising, he was wounded while attempting to escape from St. Stephen’s Green to the nearby Royal College of Surgeons building which had been occupied by the Irish Volunteers.

Draft design for an emblem for the Catholic Boys’ Brigade founded on Church Street in Dublin in March 1894.

Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, Wales, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Frongoch was described as the ‘University of the Revolution’. Among the internees in the camp were leading republicans such as Michael Collins, Terence MacSwiney, Richard Mulcahy, and Gerry Boland.

Six dray (or draft) horses standing harnessed to carts hauling large kegs at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin. This is an image of some of the working horses used at the Jameson Distillery in Dublin, in about 1905. The photograph was probably taken from atop of the Capuchin Friary which fronted onto Bow Street.

An image of a craftsman dressing a mill stone in a workshop.

An aerial view of the town of Drogheda, County Louth, in about 1945.

A view of the town of Drogheda in County Louth in about 1955. Visible in the print is the River Boyne (Drogheda is the last bridging point on the river before it enters the Irish Sea). Prominent buildings include (on the right) St. Peter's Church situated on an elevated site on the north side of West Street in the centre of the town.