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A leaflet with the text of a satirical ballad about the Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force (the Black and Tans) with reference to what is known as known as the ‘Sack of Balbriggan’.

A notice reporting on the death of Lord FitzAlan on 18 May 1947. The obituary appeared in the ‘Irish Independent’ on 19 May 1947. Edmund Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, was the last Lord Lieutenant (Viceroy) of Ireland (1921-2).

A republican flier titled ‘To the Irish People’ referring to the threat of conscription.

A flier titled ‘George Noble Plunkett was born in Dublin on December 3rd, 1851. In 1884 he received the title of Count of The Holy Roman Empire ... A vote for Plunkett is a vote for Ireland's freedom’. The leaflet is most likely an election flier for the North Roscommon by-election in February 1917.

A flier advertising a commemoration concert in celebration of the birth of Robert Emmet. It reads ‘An excellent and unique programme with the best Irish-Ireland talent has been arranged. Recitations, Songs, Dances & Music. Tickets can be had at all Irish-Ireland shops or on door on night of Concert. Doors open at 7.15. Commences at 8’. Printed in Dublin by O’Brien Bros., printers, 7 College Street.

A flier with the text of a ballad celebrating ‘The Smith of Ballinalee by ‘“Sean”, East Limerick’. Seán Mac Eoin's exploits as commander of the IRA's north Longford flying column, which carried out successful attacks on British forces at Ballinalee (November 1920) and Clonfin, near Granard (February 1921), earned him the sobriquet ‘the Blacksmith of Ballinalee’.

A flier with the text of a satirical ballad titled ‘An Auxiliaries’ Recollections’. The first line reads ‘Alone, all alone, I'm only skin and bone’. To be sung to the air of ‘Slievenamon’.

A leaflet with the text of a letter from Edward Thomas O’Dwyer, the Bishop of Limerick, to the editor of the ‘Munster News’ dated 10 November 1915. The text reads ‘the treatment which the poor Irish emigrant lads have received at Liverpool is enough to make any Irishman's blood boil with anger and indignation. What wrong have they done to deserve insults and outrage at the hands of a brutal English mob? They don't want to be forced into the English Army, and sent to fight English battles in some part of the world’.

A republican leaflet asserting that the news of the execution of the 1916 leaders was greeted by cheers from members of the House of Commons. The document is an election flier for Joseph McGuinness in the South Longford by-election. Sub-title reads ‘Irish Independent of April 23rd’. Signed Darrell Figgis (1882-1925), Fairford, Gloucestershire, 20 April 1917.

A flier promoting a ‘monster meeting’ to aid in the establishment of a Sinn Féin club. The meeting was to be held in the Purveyors’ Assistants Hall on Exchange Street in Dublin.