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A clipping of an article reporting Seán O’Casey’s tribute to Jim Larkin, the veteran Irish trade union leader, revolutionary, and socialist. The newspaper from which the article was taken is not given.

A clipping of a tribute to Desmond Fitzgerald (d. 9 April 1947) by Ernest Blythe. The article was published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (13 April 1947).

A copy print of a group of republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Irish republican prisoners / Hunger strike / Mountjoy Jail, October 1919 / second from right top row is Pádraig Ó Caoimh’.

A clipping of a report on the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Secretary for Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 6 May 1882. The report was published in the ‘Morning Post’ newspaper.

A handbill protesting the actions of the English in Ireland and a call for the violence to end. The flier was published by the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain. Includes quotes from Lord McCauley, Lloyd George, Joseph Chamberlain, Herbert Asquith, Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill. The text reads ‘You are making war on Ireland today in order to impose the will of a small insolent minority on the Irish nation ... in violation of every principle of honour, justice, morality and democracy’.

A republican flier titled ‘Sinn Féin – the fruitful principle’. The text includes from Éamon de Valera’s ‘interview with Mr. W.H. Brayden of the Associated Press of America, July 20th, 1923’

An information sheet titled ‘George Bernard Shaw appeals to the IRA / friendship with Britain’. The document quotes from remarks by George Bernard Shaw with ‘Ireland's answer’ signed by P. Fleming ‘on behalf of the Government of the Republic’.

A clipping of an image from the ‘Sunday Herald’ (7 May 1916) purporting to show a ‘Dublin street battle actually in progress’ during the Rising. The caption also suggests that the image is ‘the only snapshot yet published of the fighting in Dublin’.

A clipping of an image of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington who was shot dead in Portobello Barracks in Dublin during the 1916 Rising, after having been detained by British soldiers.

A flier produced for Thomas Harris, the Fianna Fáil candidate, in the Kildare by-election held in June 1931.