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A postcard print of Dr Patrick McCartan. The caption refers to his escape to America on board a ‘tramp steamer’ and to his candidature for the King’s County (Tullamore) by-election (April 1918).

Letter from the Governor of Reading Jail to Anna Fahy, 17 Norfolk Road, Phibsborough, Dublin, acknowledging the receipt of £1 which has been placed to the credit of her husband, Frank Fahy.

Letters from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., asking for a ‘national novena to the Sacred Heart’. She declares that she has ‘had a letter from Dev this morning. They have had no Sunday mass since they left Ireland. He served Mass on Corpus Christi but that was the only day they had Mass’. She relays De Valera’ request that luxury items such as sweets should not be sent to republican prisoners and suggests that ‘some little committee could be formed to collect the money which would otherwise be expended on postage …’. She adds ‘Please don’t let Eamonn’s name be associated with it as I know he would not like his remark about the luxuries to go around. He has a dislike to being considered a vaitin and his remark might be misunderstood’. In the letter of 24 May 1918 she refers to her anxiety over ‘the midnight raid and Saturday’s paper’. She added: ‘Dev is in Gloucester prison. I had a message from the Governor saying to send on some clothes’.

Letter from Arthur Griffith, 'Nationality' Offices, 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., apologising for being unavailable to meet Fr. Aloysius. He adds ‘My friend the bearer … can take any message for me or make any arrangements to suit you’.

Letter to Lena May Murphy, Cork, from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (23 Nov. 1918). It reads: ‘I must thank you very sincerely for your great kindness to my dead father in his last illness. All at home are never done telling everybody of you and your wonderful goodness’. This letter was sent by [Maire] Murphy, 35 Mercier Park, Curragh Road, Cork, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (13 Nov. 1991), explaining that Lena May Murphy was her late aunt. With a copy photograph of Lena May Murphy, and notes by Fr. Nessan re Lena May who worked as a nurse caring for elderly patients.

A republican flier titled ‘Can Ireland Stand Alone? / Is she rich enough to set up as an independent nation’. The flier was published by Sinn Féin in Dublin and is dated 28 August 1918.

A Sinn Féin poster advocating for the candidacy of Arthur Griffith in the general election of 1918. The text reads ‘Put Him In To Get Him Out / vote for Griffith / the man in jail for Ireland’.

A printed copy of Lloyd George’s letter to Sir Horace Plunkett referring to certain reservations about the powers which could be granted to an Irish Representative assembly during the Great War.

A clipping of an article from ‘Irish Opinion’, a weekly labour newspaper, questioning John Redmond’s role in ‘saving’ Kynoch’s munitions factory in Arklow, County Wicklow.

A postcard print of a cartoon image of a boat at sea named ‘Irish Nationality’, being navigated by a priest (presumably representing the Catholic Church). The boat is being rowed by leading Irish politicians such as Éamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith. Each of their respective political parties are represented in writing on their oars – Sinn Féin, Labour, and the Nationalist Party. Printed by the Gaelic Press. The artist’s initials are given as ‘H.O’N’.