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A photograph of Edmund Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, arriving at Dublin Castle to hand over power to the Provisional Government in January 1922.

An image of the aftermath of the siege of the Four Courts at the outset of the Civil War in Dublin. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel Garrison Surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / Four Courts, the Republicans fortress in Dublin, unconditionally surrendered to the Free State troops yesterday and the garrison of about 150 all now in Mountjoy prison / Picture shows women and children being taken away from the danger zone in [a] Red Cross ambulance’.

An image of Colm and Máire Gavan Duffy, the children of George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951), an Irish politician, jurist, and solicitor, and one of the signatories to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. As the caption notes, the two are ‘photographed in Paris [in] 1920 during their father’s term of office as representative of the Irish Republic’.

An invitation card for the first meeting of Dáil Éireann held on 7 January 1919. This inaugural meeting was held in private with only Sinn Féin members invited. The principal business conducted at this meeting was the election of a committee tasked with the drawing up of key documents to be discussed at the first sitting of the Dáil proper which was held on 21 January in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin.

A postcard print of Michael O’Hanrahan. The caption reads ‘Author of the “The Swordsmen of the Brigade” etc / Executed in Kilmainham Prison, May 4th 1916’.

A postcard print of Richard O’Carroll. The caption notes that he was ‘shot in action’ during the 1916 Rising.

A printed invitation to the first meeting of Dáil Éireann held on 7 January 1919. The invitation is from Thomas Kelly and Harry Boland.

An image showing women vacating their homes in Balbriggan in County Dublin. The photograph is titled ‘Refugees from the Irish Front’. The caption notes that the ‘population has been terror-stricken by the recent lawlessness which has caused so much damage’.

A photographic print of H.H. Asquith (1852-1928). The caption notes that Asquith was photographed at the Viceregal lodge in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.

An image of a military ceremony at Arbour Hill in Dublin. An annotation on the reverse of the print refers to the event as a ‘ceremony’. The soldiers have their rifles in the reverse arms position, so the event is most likely a funeral procession.