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A flier with the text of a republican poem titled ‘The Flag on the G.P.O. / Easter 1917’ by J.J. Walsh. The first two lines of the verse read ‘Why gather the crowd in O'Connell Street? / Why throng all the people there? …’.

A copy print of the prominent Irish nationalist John O’Leary

A clipping of a profile of the sculptor May Power by Geraldine Coster published in ‘Personality Parade’ (April 1947). May Power was the daughter of the renowned Dublin-born sculptor Albert Power.

A view of the ‘Innisfallen’ docked at the Port of Cork in about 1955. Constructed in 1948 for the British & Irish Steam Packet Company (later known as B&I Line), this was the third ship named ‘Innisfallen’ to serve on the Irish Sea route between Cork and the ports of Fishguard and Swansea in South Wales. The ship was built at William Denny and Brothers Shipbuilders in Dumbarton, Scotland. The ship continued to serve the Port of Cork until 1968 when it was sold to Hellenic Maritime Lines in Greece and renamed ‘Poseidonia’. Following its long years of service, it ended its days at a shipbreakers’ yard in Brindisi, Italy, in 1985.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from Eamonn Ó Dúgáin (Éamonn J. Duggan), Assistant Adjutant, 1st Dublin Battalion, Irish Volunteers, 26 Upper St. Brigid’s Road, Drumcondra, Dublin. Duggan asks Pearse for official sanction for appointments made in the 1st Dublin Battalion of the Irish Volunteers.

The title page of anti-Treaty publication ‘Freedom’ (24 September 1922). The cover has a satirical portrait of General Richard Mulcahy, Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Government’s forces. The cartoon’s title reads ‘When Mulcahy wore the collar of gold which he won from the proud invader’. (Volume page 47).

A clipping of a tribute to the Professor William Frederick Paul Stockley published in the ‘Cork University Record (Summer 1944). The tribute was most likely written by Dónall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery).

A postcard print of Michael DeLacy (Enniscorthy Volunteers). The caption notes that he was ‘Sentenced to Death / Sentence Commuted to Penal Servitude for Five Years’.

A card publicising an exhibition of art from the Joseph Brennan Collection at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin. The exhibition included sculptures by Albert Power and Jerome Connor and paintings by Walter Osborne and Nathaniel Hone.

A studio photograph of Fr. Edward Tommins OSFC (1812-1889).