An image of Irish National Army troops at Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin. Originally constructed for the British military in 1827, the barracks was the first military installation to be handed over to the newly formed Provisional Government on 1 February 1922.
A pass permitting Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. to travel ‘over the streets of Dublin by day and night’. The pass is authorised by Mervyn Richard Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt, Assistant Provost Marshal.
A telegram from Nora Ashe which reads ‘Prisoners all here. Frank [Fahy] in great form’. The telegram is most likely to addressed to Frank Fahy’s wife (Anna Fahy) in Tralee, County Kerry.
An annotated photograph showing Noel Lemass (standing, in uniform, third from the right) at a bazaar in the Mansion House in Dublin.
A photographic print Alfred White, a member of Na Fianna Éireann.
A postcard print of James Connolly. The caption reads ‘Commandant-General, Dublin Division / Executed May 9th 1916 / one of the signatories of the “Irish Republic Proclamation”’.
A photographic print of Seán T. O’Kelly, Irish Envoy, entering the office of Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, to present Dáil Eireann’s request that Ireland’s case be given a hearing at the Peace Conference in 1919.
A bound volume with original photographic prints. Many of the prints relate to individuals and events associated with the Irish Revolution. The volume also contains some images of consecrations, religious ceremonies, funerals, and photographs of the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in 1932.
A photograph of a raid by the British military on the offices of the Sinn Féin Bank at 6 Harcourt Street in Dublin on 12 September 1919. The photograph is credited to Daniel Lennon, 7 St Alban’s Road, Dublin. Lennon annotated the print with a caption which reads ‘Following the proclamation of the City of Dublin by Lord French in September 1919 a raid was carried on No. 6 Harcourt St[reet] Dublin, Sinn Féin headquarters, on 12th September 1919. Photo shows raid in progress. Note the painters continuing their work unperturbed’.
An image of the destroyed interior of the Four Courts in Dublin following the attack on the building at the outset of the Civil War in July 1922. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘’The Four Courts after bombardment’.