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Address to the Dublin Brigade by the Officer Commanding, signed by Oscar Traynor.

A republican handbill titled 'Conspiracy to Murder' referring to an alleged plot to have Éamon de Valera assassinated.

A copy letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. to the Most Rev. Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, claiming that he knew nothing of Fr. Dominic O'Connor's appointment as chaplain to the IRA until his attention was drawn to a report in the local newspapers.

Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork, to Winifred Etheridge, c/o Major F. Etheridge DSO, Broadway Cottage, Littleham, North Exmouth, Devon. The letter (27 January 1923) provides a detailed, eyewitness description of an engagement between Free State soldiers and irregular republicans near Rochestown College in August 1922. Winifred Etheridge was a sister of Ian McKenzie Kennedy, a Scottish-born republican, who died during the battle. The file also includes a photocopy of a letter (26 August 1922) from Nora Lucey, 3 Pembroke Street, Cork, to Mrs McKenzie Kennedy providing further detail on the skirmish and on the death of her son, Ian McKenzie Kennedy. A copy sketch map (drawn by Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap.) showing details of the battle between Free State forces and Anti-Treaty irregulars around Rochestown is also extant in the file.

An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Forward the Nationals! ...'.

A newspaper clipping from the 'Santa Barbara Daily News' (21 Jan. 1925) containing photographs of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Mission Santa Inés in California.

An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to Desmond Fitzgerald (1889-1947), Minister for External Affairs (1922-7), and Minister for Propaganda outside the cabinet (August 1921). The caption refers to Fitzgerald as ‘Liar in Chief to Publicity Department. Slave-State’.

An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to Ernest Blythe (1889-1975), Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. The cartoon satirizes him by referring to ‘the importance of being Earnest …’.

An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to J.J. Walsh as ‘The man of “letters” with the “mailed” fist'.

An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to General Richard Mulcahy as ‘haunted by the dreams of prisoners murdered by his troops’.