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A clipping of an article titled ‘Freedom of Dublin offered to Mr. Shaw’, ‘Irish Press’ (5 February 1946). Refers to a Dublin Corporation vote to offer the honour to George Bernard Shaw.

A clipping of an article titled ‘Kark Marx, a Sinn Feiner / by Eden and Cedar Paul’, ‘The Worker’ (15 November 1919).

A photographic print of loyalist graffiti painted onto a wall. The graffiti reads ‘Orange Glory / Boyne No Pope’. No indication for the location of the image is provided.

Blank voting form for Alexander Edward Miller in the Trinity College (Dublin University) by-election in January 1875.

A flier referring to a resolution passed at a meeting of the Property Defence Association held in Dublin in August 1881.

A set of colourized Egyptian-themed postcard prints. The caption titles include ‘Bedouin’, ‘The Pyramids of Gizeh’ and ‘Eventide in Desert’.

Menu card for a Unionist Banquet held in The Rotunda, Dublin, on 26 January 1893. The event was held to honour several Unionists MPs. The politicians were Horace Plunkett (1854-1932), the Irish Unionist Alliance MP for South Dublin from 1892 to 1900. Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster (1855-1909), the Liberal Unionist MP for West Belfast from 1892 to 1906. Richard Martin Dane (1852-1903), MP for North Fermanagh from 1892 to 1898. William Kenny QC (1846-1921), MP for St. Stephen’s Green (Dublin) from 1892 to 1898, and John Ross QC (1853-1935), MP for Londonderry city from 1892 to 1895.

A flier for a meeting of the Alexander Martin Sullivan Tribute Fund held in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 24 October 1884.

Engravings from the ‘Illustrated London News’ showing the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at Valentia and the ‘Telegraph Cable Fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, County Cork’. The prints are taken from an edition dated 28 July 1866. The captions for the images read (top) ‘The Atlantic telegraph cable fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay’ and (lower) ‘Laying the shore end of the Atlantic telegraph cable at Foilhommerum [Bay], Isle of Valentia’. Located off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Valentia Island was the eastern terminus of the first commercially viable transatlantic telegraph cable which came into operation in 1866. The prominent ship in the upper image is the ‘Great Eastern’, by some distance the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch.

A clipping of an article titled ‘On an Irish Island / a fifth-century monastery’. ‘Irish Independent’ (23 October 1919). The article refers to the ruins of monastic site on the Maharees Islands off the coast of County Kerry.