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The text of a poem titled ‘Resurrection’ with an ink drawing of a prisoner cap labelled ‘The noblest crown an Irish prisoner can wear’. The text was seemingly written by an Irish political prisoner in Lewes Prison in England. The text is signed with the initials ‘J.J.B.’.

A printed target card signed ‘Constance de Markievicz’ and dated 17 March 1922. The target card was used at twenty-five yards distance and shows eight perforations.

A copy print of an engraving of Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c.1655-1693), an Irish Jacobite soldier. The source of the original print is not given but it likely dates to the mid-eighteenth century. A note states that the likeness of Sarsfield is derived from the ‘original picture in the possession of Sir Charles Bingham Bart. of Castlebar in the County of Mayo, in the Kingdom of Ireland’.

A photographic print of Constance Markievicz speaking at a demonstration in Kilkenny on 19 July 1917. Markievicz was speaking at an event held in support of the election campaign of the Sinn Féin candidate W.T. Cosgrave.

A photographic print of Darrell Figgis (seated, second row, fourth from the right) with a group of Irish republicans.

A photograph of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (second from left) with two unidentified republicans in Freemasons’ Hall (or ‘Masonic Hall’) on Molesworth Street in Dublin. The two Capuchin friars visited the Hall following its seizure by anti-Treaty republicans in April 1922.

A postcard print of an illustration showing the execution of a rebel prisoner in Kilmainham Jail following the 1916 Rising. A Capuchin friar is shown to the left of the image.

An invitation to a reception for released prisoners of war to be held in the Mansion House in Dublin on 14 July 1917. The invitation is to Frank Fahy. The event was organised by the Irish National Aid and Volunteers’ Dependents Fund.

A studio photograph of Terence MacSwiney signed by his sister Eithne (Annie) MacSwiney.

A postcard print of the attendees at the first sitting of the First Dáil on 21 January 1919. The names of the individuals are printed (in Irish) under the image.