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An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to W.T. Cosgrave as the ‘Jester in chief to the Freak State'.

A republican handbill with the text of a ballad titled 'A Dublin Battle Ditty' referring to the attack by the forces of the Provisional Government on the Four Courts and the ensuing fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922.

A republican cartoon by Constance Markievicz published during the Civil War affirming that Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins are ‘marching heads up into the Empire over the bodies of their murdered Comrades’.

The file comprises the following editions: 6 July 1922. (no. 1) – 16 July 1922. (no. 7); 29 July (no. 11) – 5 Aug. 1922 (no. 12). These were styled the ‘war news’ editions. The editor of 'Nationality' was Sean T. O’Kelly. The newspaper of the same name was suppressed after the 1916 Rising, but was published for a couple of years later in Belfast. These first seven issues of the weekly paper cover all the hostilities during this early Civil War period, including the shooting of Cathal Brugha. The file includes multiple copies of some editions.

'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 2, 29 June 1922.

'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 5, 1 July 1922.

'The Fenian (War Issue)', 20 July 1922 (No. 5).

Official Communiqués from Republican Ministers including Éamon de Valera, President; Austin Stack, Minister for Finance; Padraig Ó Ruitleis, Minister for Home Affairs. These typescript duplicates of communiqués were published by the publicity department of the Anti-Treaty ‘Dail Eireann’ Republican Government. Includes Statement on ‘Why the Four Courts was Attacked’; Statements for publication regarding the trial of Capt. Erskine Childers in November 1922; Statement regarding the treatment of Joseph Clarke by Free State authorities. Clarke acted as the courier for the First Dáil but was interned from January 1921. Released in 1923, he acted as caretaker of the Sinn Féin headquarters on Harcourt Street, and founded the Irish Book Bureau. Although the Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin rejected participation in the Dáil, they continued to contest local elections, and Clarke sat on Dublin Corporation. (13 Nov. 1922); Proclamation by Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the IRA, declaring allegiance to De Valera as President of the Republic and pledging ‘our support in all the legitimate efforts to maintain and defend the Republic …’. 3 copies. (28 Oct. 1922); Order from Padraig Ó Ruitleis, Minister for Home Affairs, decreeing ‘that until further notice the present be observed as a time of National mourning, that all sports and amusements be suspended, that all Theatres, picture houses and other places of amusement and rest be closed …’. (13 Mar. 1923); ‘Cease Fire Order’ issued by Éamon de Valera on 27 April 1923: ‘As evidence of our good-will, the Army Council [of the IRA] is issuing herewith an Order to all Units to suspend aggressive action – the order to take effect as soon as may be, but not later than noon Monday, April 30th’. With blank nomination form used by Republican candidates in the parliamentary elections for the Third Dáil Eireann held on 16 June 1922. Printed by Browne & Nolan, Ltd., Printers, Dublin.

Letter from Liam Mellows, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, to his mother. Written at 5 a.m., shortly before his execution. It reads: ‘The time is short and much I would like to say must go unsaid. But you will understand in such moments heart speaks to heart. At 3.30 this morning we (Dick Barrett, Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey and I) were informed that we were to be “executed as a reprisal”. … I go to join Tone and Emmett, the Fenians, Tom Clarke, Connolly, Pearse, Kevin Barry and Childers. My last thoughts will be on God, and Ireland, and you. …. I had hopes that some day I might rest in some quiet place – beside Grandfather and Grandmother in Castletown (Co. Wexford), not amidst the wordly pomps [sic] of Glasnevin but if it is to be the prison clay, it is all the sweeter for many of our best lie here …’.

Letter from the Most Rev. Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to the withdrawal of Fr. Dominic’s faculties due to his inability to take the examination for renewal of faculties. Bishop Cohalan also refers to his unease on reading an announcement in the papers that Fr. Dominic is to be appointed honorary chaplain to a brigade of the IRA. The Bishop wrote: ‘Now I put it to you that a lay body has no authority to confer an ecclesiastical honour from a lay authority’. He later asks Fr. Edwin: ‘Are you not conceding to a military brigade what belongs essentially to the church?’ With a copy reply from Fr. Edwin claiming that he knew nothing of Fr. Dominic's appointment as chaplain to the IRA until his attention was drawn to a report in the Cork newspapers.