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An Irish prayer book titled ‘An Choróinn Mhuire / an t-Athair Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Canónach, S.P., do shaothruigh / an t-Athair Ristéard Pléimean, Ph. D. do chuir i n- eagar’ (Dublin: Muintir na Leabhar Gaedhilge, Brún agus Nuallán, 1917). A manuscript annotation on the first page refers to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. / 17 March 1917.

Card to Margaret Mary Pearse from an individual in Cork expressing their delight on hearing that St. Enda’s School is re-opening. The signature is indecipherable.

Card to Frank Fahy, ‘Irish Prisoner, Lewes Prison, Lewes, England’, from Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC. The card reads ‘Holy Thursday / You are always remembered since we met at the F[our] C[ourt]’s. May God bless you always. / Fr. Augustine OSFC’.

Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, Wales, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Frongoch was described as the ‘University of the Revolution’. Among the internees in the camp were leading republicans such as Michael Collins, Terence MacSwiney, Richard Mulcahy, and Gerry Boland.

A photographic print of an election poster encouraging the public to vote for W.T. Cosgrave as Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny city in the parliamentary by-election in 1917. Cosgrave, who was a veteran of the 1916 Rising, was victorious in the by-election, defeating John Magennis of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Cosgrave would go on to serve for ten years (from 1922-32) as President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

Photographic print of Irish Republican prisoners at Fairford, Gloucestershire. An annotation (in pencil) on the reverse reads: ‘(left to right) Frank McCabe, Peter Healy (dead), Joe Mac Bride, Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, Liam Peadar, Sceilg [John Joseph O’Kelly], Barney Mellows, Darrell Figgis, Dr. McCartan … Deportees at Fairford’.

A photographic print of Constance Markievicz (central figure behind the pipers) on a march in support of the election campaign of W.T. Cosgrave in Kilkenny in August 1917.

A flier with the text of a satirical republican ballad titled ‘War News by “The Rajah of Frongoch” (a nickname used by Jimmy Mulkerns).

A flier with the text of a satirical republican ballad titled ‘I don’t mind if I do by “The Rajah of Frongoch” (a nickname used by Jimmy Mulkerns).

A flier with the text of a poem by Alice Millgan titled ‘The Home Coming (Lewes to Dublin, June 18th, 1917)’ referring to the release of Irish republican prisoners.