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A clipping of a Joseph Plunkett in detention at Richmond Barracks following the defeat of the insurrection. The caption reads ‘Joseph Plunkett (nearest the camera), who was shot, and Grace Gifford, who married him in the condemned cell a few hours before his execution’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.

A clipping of a report on the execution of Major John MacBride in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin on 5 May 1916. The clipping was taken from the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’.

A clipping of an image of Constance Markievicz following her court martial. The caption notes that she ‘is seen with the wardress in the Red Cross ambulance which did duty for a “Black Maria”’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.

A clipping of a report on the executions of Con Colbert, Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, and Seán Heuston. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (8 May 1916).

A permit from the Dublin Metropolitan Police allowing Edmond Donelan, Rose Dale, Vergemount, Clonskea, to pass through the streets of Dublin (2 May 1916). The page also has a used Dublin tramway ticket dated 24 April 1916.

A clipping of a photograph of Second Lieutenant Cecil Robert Walter McCammond ‘who rode through the crowd at Portobello Bridge, Dublin, at great risk, and decimated the rebels there’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.

A clipping of a montage of photographs showing the relations of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. The clipping includes photographs of Mary Sheehy Kettle, a sister-in-law of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and the wife of Tom Kettle, an Irish Party MP and British soldier. The caption notes that though Sheehy-Skeffington was ‘shot as a rebel – his death is now the subject of a court-martial’. It also notes that his wife’s family (Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington) has many family members serving in the British armed forces including Lieutenant Sheehy who ‘fought with the Dublin fusiliers against the rebels’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.

A clipping of a report of the executions of James Connolly and Seán MacDermott (Seán Mac Diarmada) in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin on 12 May 1916. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (13 May 1916).

A clipping of a photograph taken from the Chancellor Studio on Lower Sackville (O’Connell) Street. The photograph is described as a ‘remarkable relic of the rebellion’ as it is riddled with shrapnel from the fighting during the insurrection. The image shows (left) Edward White Benson (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury, and (right) William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket (1828-1897), the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.

A clipping of an account of the opening days of the Rising by Rev. Gordon Clements, The Manse, Donore, South Circular Road, Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’ (3 May 1916).