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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’.

An image of a parade to encourage recruitment for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the outbreak of the First World War.

A view of Dublin Bridge (formerly Whitworth Bridge and now known as Father Mathew Bridge) in the Irish capital in 1932.

A photographic print of a group of officers of the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) shortly before their disbandment in 1925.

A permit from the Dublin Metropolitan Police allowing Edmond Donelan, Rose Dale, Vergemount, Clonskea, to pass through the streets of Dublin (2 May 1916). The permit is signature-stamped by Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone (1863-1936) who served as chief commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) from 1915 to 1923. The page also has a used Dublin tramway ticket dated 22 April 1916.

An aerial view of Dublin Port in September 1937.

A view of cargo vessels tied up at Dublin Port in about 1960.

A view of the Dublin Quays at dusk. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Evening on the Liffey, Dublin'.

A pledge medal of the Dublin Total Abstinence Association dating to 1840. The front (face) shows the Good Shepherd. The outer-rim inscription reads ‘I have found the sheep that was lost Luke Chap. 15 v. 6’. The obverse has a cruciform text of the pledge and reads: ‘I have voluntarily promised in the presence of the Revd. Dr. Spratt to abstain from all spiritous liquors and intoxicating drinks except used medicinally and then by order of a medical man and the discountenance of all the vices and practices of intemperance and also to attend to my religious duties’. The outer-rim inscription reads ‘The Dublin Total Abstinence Pledge The Very Revd. Dr. Spratt Patron 1840’. The maker of the medal was J. Taylor.