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An image titled ‘Children at home for shelterless / Kiev’.

An image titled ‘The daughter of the hotel manager at Stalingrad’.

An image of a group of villagers possibly in the Tambov area in Russia.

The file comprises copies of an interview with Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne. The title heading reads ‘The following document, in the handwriting of Father Welch, now a Novine in the Capuchin Friary Novitiate, Kilkenny, … given to V. Rev. Fr. Sylvester [Mulligan], Minister Provincial, and by him deposited in the Provincial Archives, Dublin, in April 1926’. The document refers to the ‘high terms’ in which Archbishop Mannix spoke of both Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. The file also includes a photographic print of Archbishop Mannix and other bishops.

Original copies of the ‘Irish Bulletin’, a republican newssheet from 1921. The ‘Irish Bulletin’ was the official daily gazette of the government of the Irish Republic. The first edition of the 'Bulletin' appeared on 11 Nov. 1919 shortly after the suppression of the entire republican press. The purpose of the 'Bulletin' was succinctly stated in the edition of 11 Nov. 1920 (Vol. 6 No. 17). ‘When it became certain that the majority party in Ireland was not to be proclaimed “illegal” the “Bulletin” had of necessity to be published secretly. It was designed to circulate principally not in Ireland but among the publicists in England and on the Continent. At its inception less than fifty copies were printed. To-day it reaches almost every country in the world and is reprinted in four European languages. It is received by the press, public men, and the leading political and other organisations of many nations’.

The 'Bulletin' was published daily but weekly editions containing summaries of ‘acts of aggression committed in Ireland by the military and police of the usurping English government’ were also routinely circulated. These weekly summaries were not assigned volume or issue numbers. Daily issues consisted mainly of sometimes detailed lists of raids by British security forces and the arrests of republican suspects. Extracts from foreign publications and sometimes sympathetic English sources were also published in the 'Bulletin'. Accounts of the activities of Dáil Courts were likewise included. It was produced by the republican publicity department during the War of Independence, and its offices were located at 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin. On 26 Mar. 1921, after sixteen months of publication, the offices of the 'Bulletin' were raided. Later, forged issues of the journal were produced with printing machinery and paper captured in the offices. These fabricated issues were sent to all the usual addresses on the list of recipients, a copy of which had also been seized. Issues of these forged 'Bulletins' were subsequently circulated for over a month.

The paper’s first editor was Desmond Fitzgerald, until his arrest and replacement by Robert Erskine Childers. The collection includes a chronological record of peace overtures which would eventually lead to the Treaty negotiations. The issue of 7 Dec. 1921 (Vol. 6, No. 35) carried an ‘advance copy’ of the articles of agreement between Great Britain and Ireland, more commonly known as ‘The Treaty’. Many of the issues of the 'Irish Bulletin' are stamped ‘Official Copy’. The file also includes a covering note which reads ‘Weekly Reports / Issued from Headquarters’.

A ‘Daily Sheet’ produced by Sinn Féin (No. 22, 19 November 1923). The text outlines the plight of republican prisoners who have resorted to hunger-striking while being detained by the Free State authorities. Includes a piece by Mary MacSwiney, the sister of Terence MacSwiney.

A clipping of a photograph of a group of Irish missionary priests bound for the United States on board the German transatlantic liner SS ‘Bremen’ off Cobh in County Cork in October 1920. The group includes the Irish Capuchin friar, Fr. Gabriel Harrington OFM Cap.