This volume contains 16 issues of War News published between November 1939 and October 1940. Bound with these copies are one issue of the Daily Bulletin for December 30th 1922, one issue of Bullets for Breakfast (1940), one issue of Penapa (1940), one issue of Comrades of Lord Edward (1940), and one issue of Barnes and Richards Appeal Committee (1940).

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.

This volume contains newspapers and ephemera produced by anti-treaty forces during the Civil War. It includes issues 1 - 74 of Poblacht na h-Eireann: War News which cover the period June 28th 1922 to October 4th 1922. Of these issues, number 53 and 70 are missing. Issues numbers 122, 125 and an unnumbered Christmas issue covering December 1922 and number 126, January 1923 are also present but not bound consecutively. The format and typography of the early issues vary considerably. Issues 1-7 are large broadsheet single sheet items. Most issues are single printed sheets. From no. 11 onwards the format and typography is consistent. There are several other publications bound in this volume. They are: one issue of Poblacht na h-Eireann: Scottish edition, a pamphlet entitled Free State and British allies, one issue of An Saorstat: The Free State, one issue of Ar n-Éire: New Ireland, one issue of Old Ireland and one issue of Éire Óg: Young Ireland. These all date from the Civil War era. The last item in the volume is the front page of the Connacht Tribune from May 1916.

This volume contains a wide variety of ephemeral material, most of which relates to the Civil War period. It includes an issue of Oglaigh na h-Eireann, seven issues of the Republican Bulletin from October and November 1923, nine issues of the Daily Bulletin from October 1922, one issue of The Flame from July 1922, one issue of The Fenian from July 1922, as well as many anti-treaty pamphlets some of which are single leaf items.

This volume contains Poblacht na hEireann/Republic of Ireland, Scottish edition which is a weekly anti-treaty newspaper. It covers the period September 1922 - January 1923. Each issue has 8 pages.