A photographic print of an election poster encouraging the public to vote for W.T. Cosgrave as Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny city in the parliamentary by-election in 1917. Cosgrave, who was a veteran of the 1916 Rising, was victorious in the by-election, defeating John Magennis of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Cosgrave would go on to serve for ten years (from 1922-32) as President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
Photographic print of Irish Republican prisoners at Fairford, Gloucestershire. An annotation (in pencil) on the reverse reads: ‘(left to right) Frank McCabe, Peter Healy (dead), Joe Mac Bride, Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, Liam Peadar, Sceilg [John Joseph O’Kelly], Barney Mellows, Darrell Figgis, Dr. McCartan … Deportees at Fairford’.
Michael Collins (standing, second person to the left in the back row) and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (seated, first on the left in the second row) at the wedding of Eliza Clancy and Michael O’Brien, 16 Airfield Road, Dublin on 22 November 1920.
A photographic print of Constance Markievicz (central figure behind the pipers) on a march in support of the election campaign of W.T. Cosgrave in Kilkenny in August 1917.
A photographic print of General Michael Collins at Portobello Barracks (now Cathal Brugha Barracks) in Dublin in 1922. An annotation on the reverse refers to the provenance of this copy of the print as relating to 'F.E. Burdett, Peak View Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire'.
A view of some of the crowds assembled on Arran Quay during the visit of President John F. Kennedy to Dublin on 26 June 1963. The photograph was taken by Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (1904-1984).
