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A memoriam card for Terence MacSwiney. The card reads ‘In Loving Memory of Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne [Terence MacSwiney] TD, Commandant 1st Cork Brigade IRA. Lord Mayor of Cork. Who died for his Country in Brixton Prison, England, 26th October, 1920. (4th Year of the Irish Republic)’ with a portrait photograph and religious text. This particular card gives the date of his death as 26 October, but MacSwiney died on the morning of 25 October.

A Republic of Ireland Bond Certificate (for $10) issued by Éamon de Valera during his American tour. This bond was issued to Hannah Ritchie and is dated 21 January 1920. The printed signature of Éamon de Valera has the unusual spelling of ‘de Bhailéara’.

A photographic print of a large group of Royal Irish Constabulary members, possibly the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary, more commonly known as the ‘Auxiliaries’, or ‘Black and Tan’ constables.

A photographic print of a Royal Irish Constabulary rugby union team. The print has numerals on some of the individuals in the group.

A postcard reproduction of a painting of Constance Markievicz by the Polish artist Bolesław Szańkowski (1873-1953). The portrait dates to 1901 when Markievicz was resident in Paris. The postcard reproduction is captioned ‘Constance Countess Markievicz TD’ and probably dates to the early 1920s when she was serving as a Teachta Dála in Dáil Éireann.

A photographic print of British Army soldiers and a Rolls Royce Pattern Mk1 Armoured Car.

A view of two Capuchin friars in the garden of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. One of the friars is cutting the lawn grass. With cover annotation.

Letter from Barry M. Egan (1879-1954), 32 Patrick Street, Cork, to Fr. Henry Rope. Egan refers to the murder of Tomás Mac Curtain and provides a commentary on the ongoing independence struggle.

Photographic print on card of a Gaelic football team (most likely students from St. Enda’s School). Print by Henry Roe MacMahon, 11 Harcourt Street, Dublin.

A copy of Rev. Michael J. Phelan SJ, ‘Canon Sheehan’ (Dublin: Catholic Truth Society, [1920]). Ink stamp on cover reads ‘St. Francis Xavier’s Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin’.