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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.

An image of St Columba's Church in Drumcliffe in County Sligo. An annotation on the reverse of the print notes that the church graveyard is the final resting place of William Butler Yeats.

A clipping of a letter from the artist Paul Henry regarding the need to find an appropriate location in Dublin for a gallery to house the paintings from the Hugh Lane bequest. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (4 October 1922).

Members of the Dublin Corporation Lane Bequest Claim Committee including (fourth from the right) Mary Sheehy Kettle (1884-1967), widow of Tom Kettle, J.J. Howe, secretary to the City Manager, and J.J. Reynolds, councillor.

A clipping of two election fliers for the County Dublin constituency. The fliers were produced for Darrel Figgis (an Independent Pro-Treaty candidate) and Thomas Johnson (the Labour Party candidate). The advertisements appeared in the ‘Irish Independent’ (15 June 1922).

A Dublin Fire Brigade tender near the Four Courts following the assault on the building at the start of the Civil War on 1 July 1922. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel garrison surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / the Four Courts, the republican fortress in Dublin, unconditionally surrendered to the Free State troops yesterday, and the garrison of about 150 are now in Mountjoy Prison / Photograph shows a fire engine at work’.