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An autograph book signed by Anti-Treaty IRA prisoners detained in Limerick Jail in early 1923. The text includes patriotic and republican poems and statements composed by the detainees. The volume was compiled by James O’Mahony (Séamus Ó Mathúna) from Mitchelstown in County Cork. O’Mahony joined the Irish Volunteers in September 1917 and was active in the anti-conscription campaign. As an engineering student in University College Cork, he continued his republican activities and by July 1921 held the rank of adjutant of the 6th Battalion of the Cork No. 2 Brigade of the IRA. He participated in several engagements with British forces in Cork during the War of Independence and was appointed the brigade’s principal training officer. He took the Anti-Treaty side during the Civil War and was a member of the republican forces which fought in a large-scale engagement in Kilmallock in County Limerick in August 1922. He was captured by the National Army in December 1922 and was initially confined in Mitchelstown. In early January 1923, he was moved to Limerick Jail and was held there until he escaped on 31 March.

Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail in February 1923.

Prisoner (Seán McLoughlin) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 27 February 1923.

Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 4 March 1923.

Prisoner (Thomas McCarthy) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 5 March 1923.

Prisoner (Míceál Ó Gríobhtha) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 4 March 1923.

Prisoner autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 27 February 1923.

Prisoner (Maurice O'Brien) autograph text at Limerick Jail dated 8 March 1923.

A ‘national annual’ with contributions from Arthur Griffith, Alderman Thomas Kelly, Seamus O’Sullivan, ‘John Brennan’, ‘Brian Na Banban’ (Brian O'Higgins), Patsy Patrick and Alderman P. Macken. Cover contains a cartoon drawn by Grace Gifford: ‘Thou are not conquered yet dear land’.

A copy of ‘The Irish Worker’ (6 September 1913). Founded (and initially edited) by Jim Larkin in 1911 as a pro-labour alternative to the capitalist-owned press, ‘The Irish Worker’ was particularly noted for its caustic cartoons by Ernest Kavanagh (1884-1916) attacking William Martin Murphy and the Dublin Metropolitan Police during the Lockout of 1913