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The song uses the refrain ‘Up Plunkett and McGuinness! For I want my four green fields'. Joseph McGuinness contested the 1917 South Longford by-election. At that time, he was prison in Lewes, Sussex, for his part in the 1916 Rising.

An election handbill quoting a letter from the Most Rev. William J. Archbishop of Dublin criticising the stance of the Irish Parliamentary Party. It reads: ‘For years past I have never had a moment’s doubt that the Irish Home Rule cause in Parliament was being led along a line that could only bring it to disaster. …’. The handbill concludes with a call to vote for W.T. Cosgrave in the Kilkenny by-election.

An election flier printed during the Dublin College Green by-election which was held on 11 June 1915. The flier was produced by John Dillon Nugent (1869-1940), a Dublin Corporation councillor and a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The flier accuses Nugent’s opponent Thomas Farren (1879-1955), a leading trade unionist, of ‘Larkinism’ and pro-German sympathies.

An election flier for Michael O'Mullane, a Sinn Féin politician, referring to Noel Lemass who 'has been brutally murdered by agents of The "Free" State'. The flier asks the 'Electors of South Dublin show your disapproval of all such hellish acts by recording your vote for Michael O'Mullane'. Published in Dublin by Joseph Clarke.

Election flier for the Labour Party for Dublin City, North. The flier outlines the party's policies and is titled 'Vote 1 O'Carroll / Labour Candidate'.

The fliers claim the support of Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. and Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Church Street, calling them ‘distinguished representatives of the Order which in dark and evil days held aloft the lamp of learning in Ireland’. Father Lawrence wrote ‘I am glad Mr. John Farren is seeking election as a member of the Dublin Corporation. …’. The fliers were printed by Mitchell & Co., 29 Capel Street, Dublin, and published by the candidate.

A propaganda handbill highlighting the support of Father Matt Ryan, PP, Knockavilla, Tipperary, ‘the famous “General” in the Land War Campaign’, for the Sinn Féin candidate in the South Longford by-election.

An election flier issued by the Trade Union Congress and the Irish Labour Party addressed 'to the workers of Ireland' setting out their polices in advance of the general election of December 1918.

A handbill in favour of Sinn Féin’s W.T. Cosgrave’s campaign for the Kilkenny by-election in 1917. The handbill concludes ‘Cosgrave stands for the same principles which the Bishop of Limerick professed 20 years ago …’. The handbill was printed for the candidate, William T. Cosgrave, by the Kilkenny People Printing Works, James’s St., Kilkenny.

In the circular Plunkett promoted Sinn Féin’s strategy and declared that ‘the position of the Irish Party during Easter Week was deplorable. The Leader of the Irish Party [John Redmond] accepted the points of view of the government. He speaks like an Englishman intent on maintaining English supremacy, not as an Irishman who believes that his Nation has the rights common to all nations, and the duty to wrest her liberties from foreign control by every means in her power’.