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A photograph an Irish National Army officer (identified as ‘Captain Heaslip’ in the original caption) conversing with a Major in the Worcestershire Regiment as the former prepares to assume guard duties at the Bank of Ireland building on College Green in Dublin. This was one of several significant public handovers from the British administration to the Provisional Government during 1922. The event was noteworthy as it was first time that the historic Bank of Ireland building (prior to 1801 it housed the Parliament of Ireland) was guarded by non-British troops.

A photograph of Edmund Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, arriving at Dublin Castle to hand over power to the Provisional Government in January 1922.

An image of the aftermath of the siege of the Four Courts at the outset of the Civil War in Dublin. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel Garrison Surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / Four Courts, the Republicans fortress in Dublin, unconditionally surrendered to the Free State troops yesterday and the garrison of about 150 all now in Mountjoy prison / Picture shows women and children being taken away from the danger zone in [a] Red Cross ambulance’.

A postcard print of Michael O’Hanrahan. The caption reads ‘Author of the “The Swordsmen of the Brigade” etc / Executed in Kilmainham Prison, May 4th 1916’.

A postcard print of Dr Richard F. Hayes. The caption notes that he was ‘sentenced to 20 years penal servitude’.

A studio photograph of Fr. Patrick Kavanagh OFM, a Franciscan friar and historian of the 1798 rebellion. A manuscript caption reads ‘Father Kavanagh OFM / Historian of ‘98’

A postcard with images of the ‘Enniscorthy Leaders’ of the Irish Volunteers in 1916. The individuals are named as Captain James Rafter, John Etchingham and Captain [Robert] Brennan.

A photographic print of flowers on the grave of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

A photographic print of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s Funeral leaving St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin.

A photographic print of British army personnel with goods seized from St. Enda’s College (the school founded in 1908 by Patrick Pearse) in Dublin. The manuscript caption reads ‘Loot from St. Enda’s’.