A memoriam card for Terence MacSwiney. The card reads ‘In Loving Memory of Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne [Terence MacSwiney] TD, Commandant 1st Cork Brigade IRA. Lord Mayor of Cork. Who died for his Country in Brixton Prison, England, 26th October, 1920. (4th Year of the Irish Republic)’ with a portrait photograph and religious text. This particular card gives the date of his death as 26 October, but MacSwiney died on the morning of 25 October.
An image of female pipers on parade at the 1916 silver jubilee commemorations outside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade took place on 13 April 1941.
An image showing the evacuation of British troops from the Curragh Camp in County Kildare on 16 May 1922. A manuscript caption reads ‘The British leave the Curragh and Ireland – 1922’.
A postcard print of Finian Lynch. The caption notes that he was a captain in the Irish Volunteers and ‘Sentenced to Seath / Sentence Commuted to 10 Years’ Penal Servitude’.
A postcard print of Michael DeLacy (Enniscorthy Volunteers). The caption notes that he was ‘Sentenced to Death / Sentence Commuted to Penal Servitude for Five Years’.
A postcard print of Captain Thomas Slater. The caption notes that he was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life.
A photographic print of Michael Collins leaving City Hall in Dublin. The typescript caption reads ‘The story of to-day was the Irish Provisional Government removing their head-quarters from the Mansion House to City Hall, Dublin. Great interest was taken as a detachment of IRA armed with modern rifles were posted around the City Hall as sentries / Picture shows Mr Collins leaving City Hall as the sentries are changed’.
A studio photograph of Fr. Patrick Kavanagh OFM, a Franciscan friar and historian of the 1798 rebellion. A manuscript caption reads ‘Father Kavanagh OFM / Historian of ‘98’
