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A view of North Harbour on Cape Clear, Ireland's most southerly island, situated about ten kilometres off the south-west coast of County Cork. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Harbour, Cape Clear / Roaring Water Bay / and Mount Gabriel'.

A postcard print of North Street in New Ross in County Wexford.

An Anti-Treaty handbill. The text reads: ‘It has been said that the Irish people are guilty of the blood shed by the firing squads, because the executions were carried out in their name ... This is not true ... when the time comes, they will repudiate the responsibility for the blood. Guiltiness and The shame, by turning down the men who falsely used their name as a cover for these horrible deeds. Printed in Manchester by Whiteley & Wright. Titled ‘No. 1’ in a series.

A clipping of an article on an exhibition in the Victor Waddington Galleries on South Anne Street in Dublin which included works by Jacob Epstein, Feliks Topolski, Dora Gordine and Matthew Smith. The article was published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (6 April 1947).

Note from C. Burgess [Cathal Brugha], Dublin Castle Hospital, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Franciscan Capuchin Church, Church St. It reads: ‘I should be obliged if you dropped in here any time tomorrow or Friday to hear my confession. As there has been a new regulation made here with regard to the admission of the clergy it might be as well if you brought this card with you’. During the Rising Brugha was severely wounded by a hand grenade, as well as by multiple gunshot wounds, and was initially not considered likely to survive. He recovered over the next year, but was left with a permanent limp.

Note from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), An Cumann Gaelach, University College Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A note from George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) referring to his financial circumstances which forces him to refuse any charitable requests made to him. A manuscript addition to the note reads 'Sorry; but you must write me off-your list of Maecenas. The above is serious, and at present acute. / GBS'.

Note from Military Headquarters, Parkgate Street, to Dublin Metropolitan Police. The note reads: ‘Please tell the Franciscan Fathers at Church Street that the two men they wish to see at Kilmainham Detention Prison should be seen by them tonight’. Printed heading reads: ‘Dublin Metropolitan Police Telephone’. Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke were executed on the morning of 3 May

Note from Pádraig Ó Máille possibly to Patrick Pearse re the formation of a Gaelic League branch in Moycullen, County Galway.

The note reads: ‘Dear Mother, we had to surrender so we march to Phoneix [sic] Park, don’t forget to pray us’. A partially decipherable name and address is given on the reverse: ‘Matthew [ ], 12 Great Longford St, Dublin, off Aungier St.’ The item was found within an envelope annotated: ‘Farewell letter to His mother of a soldier of the I.R.A. who fought for Ireland in the Rising of Easter Week, 1916’.