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A clipping of a photograph of a horse killed in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin during the Easter Rising. The caption credits the image to the ‘Illustrated Sunday Herald’.

A view of a horse-drawn harvester in about 1955. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Near the end of its hay day'.

An image of a farmer using a horse-drawn plough in rural Ireland.

‘Hotel Metropole and Post Office, Dublin. Before and After’. In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the Scottish photographic publishers Valentine and Sons issued a series of postcard images depicting the destruction of buildings on Sackville Street and at other locations around Dublin.

A ticket for the Hill of Howth Tramway, operated by the Great Northern Railway Company, purchased on 24 April 1916, the first day of the Easter Rising. The ticket was purchased by the family of T. Molloy and his description conveys his personal memories of that day. It reads ‘Ticket issued for Easter Monday 1916 to one of a family going to Howth for the day. Coming to Howth Station to return home in the evening great crowds of people were told that no trains were running as there was trouble in the city. I, at the age eight, with my seven-year-old brother, & my father & mother, who carried another two-year-old brother, had, like many others, to walk home that night’.

An image of hurlers at St. Enda’s School, or Scoil Éanna, a secondary school for boys established by Pádraig Pearse in 1908.

A flier with the text of a satirical republican ballad titled ‘I don’t mind if I do by “The Rajah of Frongoch” (a nickname used by Jimmy Mulkerns).

A flier with the text of a republican ballad titled ‘If you're Irish, We're going to suppress you!’

A clipping from the 'Illustrated Chronicle' (5 Sept. 1913) referring to the rescued children from the tenement building at 67 Church Street. The caption to the image refers to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, one of the Capuchin friars who helped in the rescue.