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A photograph of a sketch of James Ryan, a revolutionary and later a Fianna Fáil politician. The original sketch was drawn by Seán O’Sullivan (1906-1964) and is dated 1937.

A photograph an Irish National Army officer (identified as ‘Captain Heaslip’ in the original caption) conversing with a Major in the Worcestershire Regiment as the former prepares to assume guard duties at the Bank of Ireland building on College Green in Dublin. This was one of several significant public handovers from the British administration to the Provisional Government during 1922. The event was noteworthy as it was first time that the historic Bank of Ireland building (prior to 1801 it housed the Parliament of Ireland) was guarded by non-British troops.

An image of a rifle, bullets and a belt associated with the Irish Volunteers. The equipment was probably seized after the conclusion of the 1916 Rising.

A photograph of Edmund Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, arriving at Dublin Castle to hand over power to the Provisional Government in January 1922.

An image of the aftermath of the siege of the Four Courts at the outset of the Civil War in Dublin. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel Garrison Surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / Four Courts, the Republicans fortress in Dublin, unconditionally surrendered to the Free State troops yesterday and the garrison of about 150 all now in Mountjoy prison / Picture shows women and children being taken away from the danger zone in [a] Red Cross ambulance’.

A postcard of The O’Rahilly (Michael Joseph O'Rahilly). The print is credited to Lafayette Studios, Dublin.

An image of Colm and Máire Gavan Duffy, the children of George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951), an Irish politician, jurist, and solicitor, and one of the signatories to the Anglo-Irish Treaty. As the caption notes, the two are ‘photographed in Paris [in] 1920 during their father’s term of office as representative of the Irish Republic’.

An invitation card for the first meeting of Dáil Éireann held on 7 January 1919. This inaugural meeting was held in private with only Sinn Féin members invited. The principal business conducted at this meeting was the election of a committee tasked with the drawing up of key documents to be discussed at the first sitting of the Dáil proper which was held on 21 January in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin.

A postcard print of Michael O’Hanrahan. The caption reads ‘Author of the “The Swordsmen of the Brigade” etc / Executed in Kilmainham Prison, May 4th 1916’.

A postcard print of Richard O’Carroll. The caption notes that he was ‘shot in action’ during the 1916 Rising.