A military sentry stands guard outside the destroyed General Post Office on O'Connell Street following the 1916 Rising.
A photographic print of destroyed buildings on O’Connell Street after the 1916 Rising.
A photographic print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. among a large crowed at a public event. No information in relation to either the date or the location of the event is given, but it was likely in Cork. The central figure addressing the crowd may be Tomás MacCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork.
A photographic print of Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), President of Ireland, at a public ceremony. Both Éamon de Valera and John A. Costello are present in the background.
An image of Irish Volunteers posing with an Irish tricolour flag. No indication of the names of the individuals or the location of the photograph is given.
A photograph print of retired British Army soldiers outside the entrance to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin.
A bound volume containing newspapers clippings broadly covering significant events in the Irish Revolution. The volume contains clippings relating to Thomas Ashe, Tomás MacCurtain, the treaty debates, Jim Larkin and Irish trade unionism, executions during the Civil War, and the murder of Noel Lemass. Other (seemingly unrelated) clippings relate to the contested will of Richard Croker (1843-1922), an Irish American leader of New York City’s Tammany Hall organisation. The disputed will was the subject of a probate lawsuit in the Court of King’s Bench in Ireland. Many of the clippings are taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ and the ‘Manchester Guardian Weekly’.
A clipping of an article reporting on the funeral service of Kathleen O’Kelly, the mother of Seán T. O’Kelly, in St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. The clipping is taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (28 September 1923).
Invitation card to the 150th anniversary of the foundation of All Hallows College.