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An election flier printed during the Dublin College Green by-election which was held on 11 June 1915. The flier was produced by John Dillon Nugent (1869-1940), a Dublin Corporation councillor and a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The flier accuses Nugent’s opponent Thomas Farren (1879-1955), a leading trade unionist, of ‘Larkinism’ and pro-German sympathies.

Members of the Dublin Corporation Lane Bequest Claim Committee including (fourth from the right) Mary Sheehy Kettle (1884-1967), widow of Tom Kettle, J.J. Howe, secretary to the City Manager, and J.J. Reynolds, councillor.

A clipping of two election fliers for the County Dublin constituency. The fliers were produced for Darrel Figgis (an Independent Pro-Treaty candidate) and Thomas Johnson (the Labour Party candidate). The advertisements appeared in the ‘Irish Independent’ (15 June 1922).

A Dublin Fire Brigade tender near the Four Courts following the assault on the building at the start of the Civil War on 1 July 1922. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel garrison surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / the Four Courts, the republican fortress in Dublin, unconditionally surrendered to the Free State troops yesterday, and the garrison of about 150 are now in Mountjoy Prison / Photograph shows a fire engine at work’.

An image of a parade to encourage recruitment for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the outbreak of the First World War.

A view of Dublin Bridge (formerly Whitworth Bridge and now known as Father Mathew Bridge) in the Irish capital in 1932.