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A view of Galway Docks. The large circular building is the Tynagh mines silo used to store concentrate and ore taken from the lead and zinc mines at Tynagh in County Galway. The mines ceased operation in 1981.

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

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'.

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

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

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.

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’.