Hermes was a literary journal for the staff and students of University College, Dublin. The first issue stated that the periodical "would not seek to be a semi-political organ of the student body, but would publish essays, poems, and reviews ... written either by the professors and students of the University or by their friends". The magazine also welcomed contributions from all the colleges of the Royal University, including the then Queen's Colleges in Belfast, Cork, and Galway.

St. Stephen's was a University College Dublin magazine started in 1901. The contributors and editorial staff included names that would later become important figures in Irish literary, political, and educational circles. Initially edited by Hugh Kennedy, the magazine was subsequently edited by Felix Hackett, Thomas Kettle, Constantine Peter Curran, John Kennedy, and Francis Cruise O'Brien. Contributors were mainly staff and students of the University, among them James Joyce, Patrick Pearse, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, George Sigerson, and Patrick J. Little. The magazine was issued monthly during term. The magazine ceased publication in May 1906, but was re-started in 1960. This collection covers the initial volumes from 1901-1906.

This is a collection of six bound volumes of Irish newspapers and ephemera covering the period 1916 to 1940. The majority of the material in four of the six volumes is from the Civil War period, 1922-23. These four volumes include long runs of anti-treaty newspapers including the Daily Sheet, the Daily Bulletin and Poblacht na h-Eireann and issues of other titles such as The Fenian and The Flame. In addition, there are many anti-treaty ephemeral items such as leaflets and short pamphlets. Bound in with these Civil War materials are occasional items from 1916, the War of Independence and the early years of the Free State. In addition to the four volumes pertaining to the Civil War era, one of the volumes contains a weekly newspaper entitled Nationality, edited by Arthur Griffith, covering the period September 1917 to February 1919 and another volume includes issues of the Republican Newspaper War News from the period 1939-40.