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A photograph of a large crowd outside Westland Row Station (now Pearse Station) in Dublin, awaiting the return of released republican prisoners. Many of the prisoners had fought in the Easter Rising of 1916.

An appeal in support of exiled French Capuchins in Cork. The appeal notes that the friars have been exiled as part of 'the policy of persecution adopted by the present French ministry, and which has resulted in breaking up the whole religious system of that country'. This original printed appeal is pasted into the volume at p. 4.

A clipping of an appreciation of the sculptor Albert Power by C.P. Curran. The article was published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (15 July 1945).

A flier with the text of a satirical ballad titled ‘An Auxiliaries’ Recollections’. The first line reads ‘Alone, all alone, I'm only skin and bone’. To be sung to the air of ‘Slievenamon’.

Members of An Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil (the FCA, or local defence force) on parade, possibly at a celebration marking Corpus Christi in Dublin. The members appear to be from the 11th Cavalry Squadron (Eastern Command, FCA).

A postcard print titled 'An Irish Cabin'.

A clipping of an article titled ‘An Open Letter to Mr Churchill’ by Denis Ireland. The article was reproduced from the ‘Irish News’.

An image of the bridge over the River Gylde at Annagassan in County Louth in about 1940.

A view of Annestown (in Irish ‘Bun Abha’, meaning ‘river’s end’), a small coastal village in County Waterford, in about 1955. The tower of the Church of Saint John the Baptist is visible in the image. This small-scale rural church was constructed by the Board of First Fruits, an institution of the Church of Ireland, which was established in 1711 to build and improve Anglican churches and rectories in Ireland. The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Annestown dates to about 1822.

A photographic print of Aodh de Blacam. A manuscript note attached reads 'Please substitute enclosed snapshot in any future hue-and-cry for Aodh de Blacam as it is 25 years later and tactfully conceals absence of thatch'.