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A stamped license for 2 dogs under the ‘Dogs Regulation (Ireland) Act, 1865’ dated 30 March 1912.

From the minutely-detailed collie on the stamps to the requirement for the clerk to sign the form in two separate places, this Dog Licence is no simple record of payment. It is a monument to the fusty bureaucracy of the British Empire.

A black and white picture with white highlights of John Bull (Britain) and Hibernia (Ireland) shaking hands circa 1912, signed in lower right corner.
This cartoon by John Fergus O’Hea shows John Bull (Britain) and Hibernia (Ireland) shaking hands in front of the burning fire of an Entente Cordiale. O’Hea, who worked under the pseudonym Spex, was one of the most prolific Irish political cartoonists of his time. The cartoon suggests that love is in the air, although Hibernia seems a little unsure.

Etching of Leinster Market (Off D'Olier St) by Estella Solomons HRHA, signed and dated 1913.

Many Dubliners lived in the sort of tenements depicted in this 1913 etching by Estella Solomons. Solomons was, like Harry Kernoff, Jewish. Her brother, Bethel, was master of the Rotunda Hospital. Estella studied art under Walter Osborne and William Orpen, and later married Seamus O’Sullivan, with whom she produced the Dublin Magazine for 35 years.

A ball invitation to Captain L. Heuson M.V.O to meet the Lord Lieutenant and Countess of Aberdeen on Wednesday 18 June 1913 in the Pavilion, Kingstown. (Present day Dún Laoghaire)

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland briefly in 1886 before returning to the post for a nine-year spell after five years as Governor General of Canada. The Countess of Aberdeen, Isobel Hamilton-Gordon, also left her mark, serving as president of the International Council of Women as well as founding the Victorian Order of Nurses. This invitation was sent to Captain Lionel Lloyd Hewson, a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.

'Dublin After the Six Days Insurrection'- Commemorative Picture Booklet of the 1916 Rising

2½p black and white stamp with image of 1916 rebel, a man with a rifle, outside the GPO “‘... In ainm Dé agus in ainm na glún D’imig Rómainn ...’ Forógra 1916’