Memorial print of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., ‘Chaplain of the Irish Republican Army’. It notes that on ‘his deathbed he renewed his allegiance to the Irish Republic. In deference to his life-long wish, his remains, together with those of this loyal pupil Fr. Dominic now lie side by side in Irish soil in the little cemetery, Rochestown, County Cork’
A booklet describing the attacks on civilians which took place in North King Street during the Rising. The work was written from a Sinn Féin perspective and was authored by John J. Reynolds.
A pictorial postcard print of the town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford in about 1945. Some of the prominent buildings in the image include Enniscorthy Castle (centre), a late sixteenth-century fortified tower house, St. Aidan’s Cathedral (background, centre-left), the largest building in Ireland designed (1843) by Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), the architect responsible for the interior of the Palace of Westminster in London, and St. Mary’s Church of Ireland (left), a Gothic Revival style church built between 1840 and 1850 to the designs of Joseph Welland (1798-1860), architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland.
An Irish Army vehicle towing an artillery piece crosses a pontoon bridge while on manoeuvres. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Artillery crosses a pontoon bridge during army manoeuvres in the south'.
A view of a farmer resident in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Coming from the peat bogs, Dunfanaghy, County Donegal'.
Copy of Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan’s (1852-1913) poem ‘Sentan the Culdee’. The poem was originally published in 'The Irish Monthly', XXIV, (Jan. 1896), pp 1-10.