Souvenir booklet of 31 photographs from Dublin during the 1916 Risingtaken by Mr T W Murphy

Framed Irish Times front page Dublin Friday May 16th 1873 Vol XV No. 6031

Photographs, cartoon of Brian Cowen and Gordon Brown, letter from K.J. McManus to Peter about IT photography department, painting

Photos of clock, black and white

One Cossor valve radio

Framed Lady Lavery £10 note, blue-ish note with pale wooden frame

4x 'Dandy' comic books, 1994

Pages 11 and 12 from the Sunday Independent, 9 July 1972.

The Irish Independent was launched in 1905, successor to the Daily Irish Independent. The paper was owned by William Martin Murphy, and stayed in his family until it was purchased by Tony O’Reilly in a protracted coup between February 1972 and March 1973. This issue from July 1972 features a short, sycophantic profile of the new boss – no more, really, than a snapshot of his rapid rise. O’Reilly made his first million that year, and the Independent would soon become the cornerstone of his media empire.

Anti Treaty newspaper from 30 June 1923. Headlines include ‘Stop Press’ ‘Rally to the Flag’ ‘Four Courts Reports’ ‘Where the Free State Guns and Armoured Cars Come From’ ‘To the free State Soldiers’ ‘Press Censorship’ ‘Deceiving the World’

The Anti-Treaty War News includes a report dated 29th of June: “The attack on the Four Courts... is a complete failure...Despite continuous heavy gun and rifle fire, the defences of the Four Courts are intact.” In fact, shelling by the Free State Army, which began on the 28th of June and precipitated outright Civil War, brought about the surrender of the Anti-Treaty’s Dublin headquarters by midday on the1st of July. Quite apart from the damage to one of Dublin’s finest buildings, the incident also saw the destruction of hundreds of years of Irish historical records.