A handbill with the text of Reginald Dunn’s final statement at his trial for the murder of Sir Henry Hughes Wilson. He was subsequently found guilty along with Joseph O’Sullivan and both were executed. The text was ‘Reprinted from the Irish Independent, Friday, July 21, 1922’. The text reads ‘We came back from France to find that self-determination had been given to some nations we had never heard of, but that it had been denied to Ireland. We found on the contrary that our country was being divided into two countries ... and that under that [Belfast] government outrages were being perpetrated that are a disgrace to civilisation …’.
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 letter from Art O'Brien (Art Ó Briain, 1872-1949) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. O'Brien provides information and captions for photographs to illustrate his article on the history of the Gaelic League in London published in 'The Capuchin Annual'.
Photographic print of two women overlooking Bray Head in County Wicklow. No indication of the identities of the two women is given, but it is very likely that they are members of the extended Woodlock family. The railway in the background of the image is the Bray to Greystones line.
An image of the Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap. in the Church Street Friary garden following his consecration as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 September 1950.
A view of the ruins of Kilmeedy Castle in County Cork. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Kilmeedy Castle north of Macroom'. This tower house was built in the mid-fifteenth century by the MacCarthys of Drishane.
A view of College Green, Dublin, in the 1930s. Prominent are the electric trams of the Dublin United Tramways Company which operated in the capital from 1872 until the late 1940s.
