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A flier with the text of a ballad memorializing Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork.

A flier with the text of a ballad memorializing Tomás Mac Curtain, Lord Mayor of Cork.

A flier with the text of a ballad referring to the Irish Free State government. To be sung to the air of ‘I am sitting on the stile, Mary’.

A leaflet with the text of a eulogy for Thomas Ashe. Printed by Fergus O'Connor, Dublin.

A leaflet with the text of a satirical ballad about the Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force (the Black and Tans) with reference to what is known as known as the ‘Sack of Balbriggan’.

A notice reporting on the death of Lord FitzAlan on 18 May 1947. The obituary appeared in the ‘Irish Independent’ on 19 May 1947. Edmund Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, was the last Lord Lieutenant (Viceroy) of Ireland (1921-2).

A republican flier titled ‘To the Irish People’ referring to the threat of conscription.

A flier titled ‘George Noble Plunkett was born in Dublin on December 3rd, 1851. In 1884 he received the title of Count of The Holy Roman Empire ... A vote for Plunkett is a vote for Ireland's freedom’. The leaflet is most likely an election flier for the North Roscommon by-election in February 1917.

A flier advertising a commemoration concert in celebration of the birth of Robert Emmet. It reads ‘An excellent and unique programme with the best Irish-Ireland talent has been arranged. Recitations, Songs, Dances & Music. Tickets can be had at all Irish-Ireland shops or on door on night of Concert. Doors open at 7.15. Commences at 8’. Printed in Dublin by O’Brien Bros., printers, 7 College Street.

A flier with the text of a ballad celebrating ‘The Smith of Ballinalee by ‘“Sean”, East Limerick’. Seán Mac Eoin's exploits as commander of the IRA's north Longford flying column, which carried out successful attacks on British forces at Ballinalee (November 1920) and Clonfin, near Granard (February 1921), earned him the sobriquet ‘the Blacksmith of Ballinalee’.