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A photograph of Muriel MacSwiney and Terence MacSwiney’s sisters Mary and Annie. The original caption is titled ‘The widow of Terence MacSwiney’ and refers to his death ‘after fasting for 73 days in Brixton Prison’. It also affirms that Muriel MacSwiney ‘collapsed after the long strain and was not with him when he passed out’. The image is credited to World Wide Photos.

A photograph of Tomás MacCurtain, Lord Mayor, demonstrating a Fordson tractor (manufactured locally by the American Ford Motor Company) in Cork in 1920.

An image of destroyed shops and houses in Lisburn in County Antrim in September 1920. The photograph is credited Wide World Photos. The original caption refers to ‘strong military rule’ and ‘oppression of the English government’.

An image showing women vacating their homes in Balbriggan in County Dublin. The photograph is titled ‘Refugees from the Irish Front’. The caption notes that the ‘population has been terror-stricken by the recent lawlessness which has caused so much damage’.

A postcard print of destroyed buildings on Patrick Street following the ‘burning of Cork’ on 11-12 December 1920.

A postcard print of the exterior of the Church of St. Francis and the adjoining Capuchin Friary on Walkin Street in Kilkenny.

‘Lists of applications for Church Street made by Dispossessed Tenants’. The lists provide the names of local tenants who are seemingly occupying tenements, their addresses, and occupations. Notes are made of which tenants responded to ‘cards sent out’ and those which did not. With a cover sent to Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC by ‘Labourers’ Dwellings and Lodging-Houses, Corporation of Dublin’.

Photographic print of the exterior of St. Mary of the Angels, taken from the right on Church Street. The print is by Keogh Bros. Ltd., 75 Lower Dorset Street, 124 Stephen’s Green West, Dublin. The print is pasted onto card.

An image of Michael Collins at St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin, addressing a meeting to promote the National Loan in 1920. St. Enda’s (Scoil Éanna) was a secondary school established by Pádraig Pearse in 1908.

A postcard image of the Pass of Keimaneigh (in Irish 'Céim an Fhia') in the Shehy Mountains in County Cork. Printed annotation on the reverse reads 'Real Photo by Mason, Dublin'.