Photograph of a wide street on the outskirts of a country town; large numbers of Irish Free State Army soldiers appear to be preparing to board personnel carriers with a view to departing; some may have luggage; a number of civilians watch from the pavement; a church with a spire and a thatched house are visible in the background and in the foreground a commercial van with the name Ja[me]s Boyd Ltd.
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Photograph by W.D. Hogan of a small group of Irish Free State Army soldiers adopting defensive positions at the verge of a country road facing the hedgerow; others are taking up position beside a truck further along the road; two other men at the side of the road wear civilian dress and are crouching down out of the line of fire.
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Photograph by the Central News Ltd, London, of a man in civilian clothes standing beside an armoured car in a city street; a group of people look on from the distance. The photograph is accompanied by a letter from S D Buckley of the Central News Agency to Desmond FitzGerald, Director of Publicity, requesting him to forward the photograph to the man pictured whom he identifies as the “driver of the car”.
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Photograph by W.D. Hogan of the main street of a country town; a truck load of Irish Free State Army soldiers has just passed along it and some of the soldiers are waving their rifles and hats triumphantly at civilians standing on the pavement and at other soldiers lining either side of their passage; two other soldiers are crossing the road in haste.
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Photograph of a truck containing Irish Free State soldiers and a mattress, driven by a man in civilian dress, which may have just completed the crossing of the bridge; a group of small boys is seated and standing on the wall of a river; many are waving their hats in jubilation; one little boy is barefoot, another is wearing a school uniform and is holding his school bag; other soldiers and an army vehicle are visible in the distance on the bridge.
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A number of civilians (and a tram driver?) looking at the remains of a burned out tram. The caption reads ‘Patrick Street, Cork, Monday morning after burning' (by Auxiliaries and Black and Tans on 11 December 1920?). Premises in background include James Mangan Ltd, Tivoli Restaurant and a tobacconist's shop. One little boy is smiling broadly at the camera.
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Photograph of two trucks passing by a barricade on a bridge over a river; both trucks are carrying Irish Free State Army soldiers although the lead truck contains at least one civilian and household furniture; a group of soldiers and civilians standing beside the bridge are watching the progress of the first truck which is being driven cautiously; a pony and trap is waiting behind the blockade, presumably to follow the trucks.
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Photograph of a personnel carrier driving past the barricade on a bridge and containing about twenty-five Irish Free State Army soldiers including an army chaplain; some are peering anxiously down at the side of the road but most look relaxed and two are smoking (Charleville Road, outside Limerick?).
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Photograph by W.D. Hogan of four Irish Free State Army soldiers carrying a coffin draped in the tricolour along the wet Main Street of Bruff, Co. Limerick; five other men in army overcoats but wearing soft caps flank the coffin carrying rifles at the reverse; buildings and cars are visible in the background. Possibly taken following the siege of Bruff in 1922.
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