The series contains souvenir booklets and miscellaneous ephemera and artefacts relating to the 1916 Rising. Most of the booklets contain photographic postcards depicting various figures, events and artefacts associated with the Easter Rising and its aftermath.
An Anti-Treaty handbill imploring Free State soldiers to ‘come out from the Free State Army at first opportunity, and renew your allegiance to the Old Love’.
Lease of property at Newtown Castlebyrne, Blackrock, between Richard Beeby Whitmore of Wexford and Andrew Reynolds of the city of Dublin. The attached map shows the lands bounding the Newtown Castlebyrne land. The bounding lands are held by Andrew Reynolds, Edmond Burrows [Burrowes] [Burroughs] and Mathew Byrne.
Letter from Fr Tom Davitt to Sr Rose, Little Sisters of the Assumption, regarding the plaque recording a bequest by Emily M M Clarke to St Joseph’s, Blackrock. Also a note concerning the letter by Fr Tom Davitt CM.
First anniversary cards for the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising including one card for Joseph Mary Plunkett, William Pearse, Michael O’Hanrahan, Edward Daly, another for Major John MacBride, and one for ‘for the repose of the souls of the following Irishmen who were executed by English Law’. (Hand coloured, tricolour and green flag over crossed pikes. Interlacing ribbon reads: ‘Our Prayers Daily’.
Two memorial cards for Peadar Healy (Peadar Ó hÉaluighthe), from Phibsboro in Dublin, who died on 23 April 1919. Healy was a captain in the 1st Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and was a participant in the 1916 Rising. One of the cards (with Irish text) has a photographic print. It was produced by Brian na Banban, a pseudonym used by Brian O’Higgins (1882-1963), a founding member of the Volunteers and himself a 1916 veteran.