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Map of part of North East Dublin. Shows from Trinity to summer Hill and Dorset Street and from King Street to The Strand.

Map of part of South East Dublin. Shows from Wood Quay to New Street and from St. Stephen’s Green and Lower Coombe to Ballsbridge.

Map of part of South West Dublin. Shows from the Royal Hospital and Kilmainham Lane to Upper Coombe and from Lord Galway Walk to Dolphin’s Barn Lane.

Map of part of North West Dublin. Black and white map showing from part of the Phoenix Park to Smithfield, the Liffey to Cabra Lane. ‘An Exact Survey of the City and Suburbs of Dublin in Which is expressed the Ground Plot of all Publick buildings dwelling Houses, warehouses, stables, courts, yards’

State lottery ticket dated 1761 for the Benefit of the three United Hospitals. Issued to Captain Alcock by J. Coats. The "Three United Hospitals" were the Charitable Infirmary on Inns Quay, Mercer's Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables in Donnybrook.
Good causes have long relied on raffles to raise money. This lottery ticket from 1761 was issued in aid of the three United Hospitals: the Charitable Infirmary on Inns Quay, Mercer’s Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables in Donnybrook. Four years later, the Irish parliament established a nationwide hospital network funded by taxation and philanthropic donations.

‘Map of Ireland divided into Provinces and Counties, showing the principal roads, railways, rivers and canals and the distance in Irish Miles and furlongs of each City and Post Town from Dublin.’ Map of Ireland for Lewis Atlas of Ireland, June 27th.

Framed colour poster of a woman in chains representing Ireland, above an advertisement for Beater & Co. City of Dublin Drug Hall and plate and Sheet Glass Warehouse, 17 Lower Sackville Street.

Poster. Black writing on green background. 'Cheap trip to Dublin and back, August 15 1884 By special train leaving Drogheda'

A ticket for the Unionist Demonstration, New Leinster Hall, Dublin, Tuesday, 29 November, 1887, in a folding frame with a forged version of the ticket.

The meeting was addressed by the Marquess of Hartington, later 8th Duke of Devonshire' whose younger brother Lord Frederick Cavendish had been murdered in the Phoenix Park in 1886.
The Irish Times Wednesday, November 30, 1887 reports that 'At the outset of the proceedings it became apparent that a small minority was present who had conceived the purpose of breaking up the proceedings. Forged tickets were printed and were freely offered for sale at the last moment. But the deception was clumsy. A few gained admission to the Hall and during the evening strove to create a disturbance.'

A black and white photo of Queen Victoria in her carriage traveling through Kingstown, currently Dún Laoghaire, surrounded by crowds during her visit to Ireland in 1900.

Queen Victoria visited Dublin in 1900, near the end of her long reign. She landed at Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) on April 4th. The streets were lined with delighted Dubliners, and Victoria arrived in ‘her’ city through mock-castellated gates on Leeson Street Bridge.