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An image of Colm and Máire Gavan Duffy, the children of George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951), an Irish politician, jurist, and solicitor, and one of the signatories to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. As the caption notes, the two are ‘photographed in Paris [in] 1920 during their father’s term of office as representative of the Irish Republic’.

An information sheet titled ‘George Bernard Shaw appeals to the IRA / friendship with Britain’. The document quotes from remarks by George Bernard Shaw with ‘Ireland's answer’ signed by P. Fleming ‘on behalf of the Government of the Republic’.

A photographic print of General Richard Mulcahy at the formal handover of Beggars Bush Barracks to the National Army in Dublin on 1 February 1922. Captain O’Daly (right) has just been presented with the colours.

A view of the exterior of the General Post Office on O'Connell Street in Dublin in about 1940.

A republican flier with the text of a ballad be sung to the air of ‘Where the Blarney roses grow’. The first line reads ‘Twas over in Rathcormac, near the town of old Fermoy’. Cuthbert Lucas became Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade in Ireland in 1919. During the Irish War of Independence, in June 1920 he was captured by the IRA and held in East Clare. He was released four weeks later.

A view of Macroom Castle Gatehouse in County Cork. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Entrance to Macroom Castle'.

A view of the cliffs on Garretstown beach in County Cork. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Garrestown, County Cork / The Smugglers' Steps'.

An image of the ornate gardens and lake at Castle Leslie, Glaslough, County Monaghan.