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An anti-Treaty republican handbill. The text reads ‘Mr. [William T.] Cosgrave stated on Sunday in Dublin, that the Republican Hunger-strikers are in jail because life and property were not safe while they were at large. … During the past six months, sixteen Free State Soldiers have been convicted in the criminal courts for robbery under arms and murder. .. Not even one Republican soldier has been charged with any of these offences. Who then are the robbers?’.

A clipping of an article reporting on the death of Eoin O’Duffy. The obituary was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (1 December 1944).

A clipping of a report on various Sinn Féin meetings and demonstrations in the country. Reference is made to speeches made by Darrel Figgis and George Noble Plunkett. The report was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (20 September 1917).

A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’), a small Irish neo-fascist party. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).

A clipping of a report on requiem mass for William ‘Willie’ Redmond held in the Church of St. Francis Xavier in Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Evening Telegraph’ (13 June 1917).

A clipping of the first page of ‘The Voice of Labour’ edited by Cathal O’Shannon (Vol. 1, No. 29, 15 June 1918).

A postcard print of Seán Mac Diarmada (Seán MacDermott), one of the signatories to the 1916 Proclamation.

A postcard of The O’Rahilly (Michael Joseph O'Rahilly). The print is credited to Lafayette Studios, Dublin.

A memoriam card for Terence MacSwiney. The card reads ‘In Loving Memory of Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne [Terence MacSwiney] TD, Commandant 1st Cork Brigade IRA. Lord Mayor of Cork. Who died for his Country in Brixton Prison, England, 26th October, 1920. (4th Year of the Irish Republic)’ with a portrait photograph and religious text. This particular card gives the date of his death as 26 October, but MacSwiney died on the morning of 25 October.

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.