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Letters from Kathleen Clarke (wife of Tom Clarke), 15 Barrington Street, Limerick, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., mostly concerning family news. She also wrote: ‘Limerick does not agree with me. I am tired all the time here. I have an unsettled feel here too … . I find it hard to realise that my home and everything is gone, the only thing left is hope, and if our hopes for Ireland’s future are fulfilled the sacrifices will have been worth the making’. She also refers to Ernest Blythe: ‘We had hoped for better for him. I suppose he is left Arbour Hill by this and there would be no use in writing to him

Letter from Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, affirming that he has sent the name of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to Cardinal Bourne for appointment as chaplain.

A leather bandolier reputed to have been used by an Irish Volunteer during the 1916 Rising. Retrieved from the gallery of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The bandolier has five pouches for the storage of ammunition.

A view (taken from City Hall) looking down Parliament Street towards Grattan Bridge and beyond to Capel Street in Dublin. On the left in the image are the offices of the ‘Evening Mail’ newspaper located on the corner of Parliament Street and Cork Hill.

A view of Bantry Harbour on the coast of West Cork in about 1940.

An image of farmers burning potato stalks in fields near Skerries in North County Dublin.

A view of the harbour at Knightstown, the main village on Valentia Island off the coast of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry.

A portrait photograph of Bridget O’Sullivan from Glengarriff in County Cork in about 1950.

The funeral of Chief Superintendent Seán Gantly, head of the Garda Special Branch, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Merchants' Quay in Dublin on 23 January 1948. Gantly was leading a party of Gardai from the Detective Branch at Dublin Castle in a search for escaped prisoners at the Hammond Lane Foundry when he was accidentally shot.

A letter from Sir John Loader Maffey (1877-1969), ‘United Kingdom Representative to Éire’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., thanking him for sending a copy of the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’.