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A green and black Republic of Ireland bond certificate for ten dollars dated January 21 1920 with the printed signatures of Eamon de Bhailéara (Éamon De Valera) President, and Seán ua Núnáin, registrar and numbered in red 183969.

During the year and a half he spent crisscrossing the United States, Éamon de Valera used ‘republican bonds’ as a method of fundraising. Raising close to $6 million, the bonds were powerful tools, legitimising the Irish Republic in the eyes of people at home and abroad. However, after the Civil War the issue of whom the money belonged to would prove contentious. This $10 bond is dated January 21st 1920 and was issued to a Mrs. Goode.

1954 Anthony Cronin, John Ryan and Patrick Kavanagh at Martello Tower. A black and white photo of Anthony Cronin, John Ryan and Patrick Kavanagh on Bloomsday, 16 June, 1954 outside the Martello Tower, Sandycove, Co. Dublin

Bloomsday was first celebrated on the 16th of June 1954, the 50th anniversary of the day on which the story of James Joyce’s Ulysses took place. Poets Anthony Cronin (on the left) and Patrick Kavanagh (on the right) are pictured here with publisher John Ryan at the Martello tower in Sandycove, where Joyce once lived.

A black and white photograph of Éamon de Valera being greeted by Dr. Bethal Solomons with Dr. Alan Thompson in the background. The frame is captioned with the year and people photographed.

A rare photograph of then-Taoiseach Éamon de Valera smiling. De Valera is being greeted by Dr. Bethal Solomons at the Rotunda Bicentenary Congress. Dr. Solomons was “a world famous obstetrician and gynaecologist, rugby international, horseman, leader of liberal Jewry and of Irish literary and artistic renaissance.” Master of the Rotunda Hospital, he won ten caps on the Irish rugby team, was the first president of the Liberal Synagogue in Dublin, and was even mentioned in Finnegans Wake.

A colour poster for the Kerrygold Dublin Horse Show in the RDS 8-12 August 1989 with green writing a collection of photographs of the Horse Show.

Two black and white photographs, the Irish team on the left and the English team on the right. Caption at the top of both pictures 'Schools International England v Eire Played at Griffin Park, Brentford - May 8th 1948. England 0 Eire 1 1948' with both pictures listing the names of the respective teams underneath.

Irish schoolboys took on their English counterparts in the 1948 Schools International, and beat them 1-0 on home ground. Many of the players on the Irish team came from the Johnville and Home Farm teams, including Gerry Mackey, the team captain. Mackey went on to play for Shamrock Rovers and is the only man to have captained the Irish team at schoolboy, youth and senior levels.

Green card pamphlet detailing current banknotes of Ireland (1990s) and their security features. Contains a 10 shilling, 10 punt and 5 punt. The 10 shilling is from 1951, the other two from 1994.

A black and white photograph of Lucian Freud and Brendan Behan chatting outside the Mansion House. From Getty 'German born English artist Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011), the grandson of psychologist Sigmund Freud, cigarette in hand, converses with Irish writer Brendan Behan (1923 – 1964) in Dublin.'

The artist Lucian Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, chats with Brendan Behan outside the Mansion House. Freud was a frequent visitor to Dublin in the 1950s. Behan was a novelist, poet and playwright, as well as a former member of the IRA. This picture was taken two years before his first major success, The Quare Fellow.

A colour photograph of a horse drinking from a trough in the street while parents a child in a buggy watch. From Getty 'A family is amused by a horse drinking from a trough in Dublin on 1 January 1955.'

Broadcaster and musician Tom Dunne's Intermediate Certificate results from 1976.

A black and white photograph of Dublin airport.

The airport was a British Royal Flying Corps base during World War I. It was taken over by the Air Corps when Ireland gained independence. Work commenced on the terminal in 1938 after the Government was persuaded to support “such an elaborate plan” despite the fact that annual passenger numbers were only in the hundreds. The tiered design and curvilinear forms echo the lines of the great ocean-going liners.