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A republican flier with the txt of a ballad titled ‘When the clocks were striking noon’ referring to the 1916 Rising.

An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'When you have to murder the best and bravest Irishmen ...'

A republican flier titled ‘Where the River Lagan Flows / A visitor’s impression of recent visit to Belfast’, referring to the activities of the ‘Belfast mob and Orangemen’.

An image of White Rocks Beach, Portrush, County Antrim. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads 'Whiterocks thro' Ladies Arch, Portrush'. An ink stamp credits the image to James Roland Bainbridge, 26 Shandon Park, Knock, Belfast.

An Anti-Treaty handbill comprising a poem with a constant refrain asking ‘Who killed Cathal Brugha?’ who died in fighting on O’Connell Street in July 1922.
It reads:
“Who killed Cathal Brugha?”
“I” said Mick Collins,
With a toss of his head
Tis well he is dead
I killed Cathal Brugha.
The second stanza contains a similar refrain in respect of General Richard Mulcahy.

A handbill with extracts from a speech by Éamon de Valera in the Mansion House outlining (through quotes by Fintan Lalor) the Sinn Féin manifesto for the realisation of a sovereign Irish state. Printed in Manchester by Whiteley and Wright.

A republican handbill containing extracts from a letter by Ėamon De Valera read at the ‘Sinn Féin meeting at the Mansion House, Dublin, July 17th, 1923’. Printed in Manchester by Whiteley and Wright. Titled ‘No. 6’ in a series.

A handbill protesting the actions of the English in Ireland and a call for the violence to end. The flier was published by the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain. Includes quotes from Lord McCauley, Lloyd George, Joseph Chamberlain, Herbert Asquith, Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill. The text reads ‘You are making war on Ireland today in order to impose the will of a small insolent minority on the Irish nation ... in violation of every principle of honour, justice, morality and democracy’.

A flier titled 'Why Casement went to Germany'. Reprint of an article "From the "Evening Mail" (New York), August 10th, 1916" - "An article written by the Irish patriot [Roger Casement] just before he left Germany on his ill-fated trip to England". Printed at bottom of sheet 'Profits on Sale of this leaflet go to the National Funds'.

A view of Wicklow Harbour in about 1930.