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

A postcard print of a destroyed electric tram car following the ‘burning of Cork’ on 11-12 December 1920.

A photographic print of civilians leaving Mallow in aftermath of a republican attack on Mallow Barracks (28 September 1920) and the British army reprisals that followed. The original caption title reads ‘Mallow destroyed by British soldiers’. The print is credited to Wide Word Photos.

An image of Tomás MacCurtain (seated on the tractor) with a nationalist pipe and drum band at a demonstration of a Fordson tractor (manufactured locally by the American Ford Motor Company) in Cork in 1920. Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. is among the crowd at the event.

Fourth Divines on visit to Graan.

Receipt for ‘articles’ received by the 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade. Signed: O[fficer] C[ommanding]. Initialed ‘b.T’.

The file includes clippings from the 'Daily Sketch', 'Cork Examiner' and the 'Freeman’s Journal'.

Copies of the 'Irish Independent' and 'Irish Times' carrying reports referring to the court martial of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. He was arrested following a raid on the Church Street Friary in Dublin in January 1921. He was court martialled in Kilmainham Jail and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment but was released the following year under the terms of a general amnesty following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

A letter from William Frederick Paul Stockley (1859-1943) to Fr. Henry Rope. Stockley refers to the case of Alice Cashel imprisoned in Galway Jail. Stockley writes ‘She is in prison for six months. He sister says she loves to hear poetry. She is a distinguished graduate, and teacher, and a fine type. She knows Irish well’. Stockley suggests that Father Rope could send her a copy of his poetry.

The Irish Theological Quarterly, xvi, no. 61 (Jan. 1921). The journal includes an article titled 'The lawfulness of the hunger strike' by J. Kelleher (pp 47-64).