The two photographs have some differences in detail.

The two photographs have some differences in detail. The bridge damage is being viewed, in the rain, by onlookers. Some men are on a ladder repairing tram cables and soldiers are standing on duty.

Photograph of a group of people, mainly children, standing in front of a wooden hut. A number of the children look unhappy although a few have managed to grin at the photographer; some of the children are barefoot. A second copy of the photograph has been touched up in pen perhaps to define it better for publication.

Photograph by W.D. Hogan of the front porch of an imposing building which has been heavily fortified with sandbags; an Irish Free State Army soldier is standing on guard; three others are peeping over the sandbags.

View of the Four Courts façade across the Liffey from Merchants' Quay by W.D. Hogan. Building shows damage, mainly broken windows in the cupola. The republican flag is flying from the roof; a truck is blocking the entrance to the east courtyard.

Photograph by W.D. Hogan possibly taken from Wellington Quay of the inhabitants of Dublin viewing the Four Courts possibly after the surrender of the republicans. People line the pavement along the quay looking at the damaged building in the distance; others hurry to get a view; bicycles are parked at the kerb; a woman and her dog stroll towards O'Connell Bridge.

Photograph by W.D. Hogan of a gentleman standing in the ruins of part of the Four Courts surrounded by debris and broken pillars. He is holding what is possibly the remnant of a document from the explosion in the treasury of the PRO.

View of the west wing of the Four Courts from Merchants' Quay by W.D. Hogan. End of the building at Morgan Place shows extensive damage from shelling; three floors and the wall have partially collapsed; a truck is blocking the entrance to the rear of the building at Morgan Place.

Photograph of the lengthy front façade of a burned out barracks; the walls and chimney stacks are intact but show heat and fire damage; small numbers of civilians, and a dog, are strolling past the building; a group of people are working at one wing of the building and a (policeman?) stands in front of it.

Photographs of two young boys, one with a rifle, protecting a bread van; the horse-drawn van bears the slogan Machine made bread and contains batch loaves; a barricade at the end of the street is visible in the background.

Photograph of a street in a country town with a series of burned out building in the background; smoke is still rising; a group of people appear to be salvaging items and placing them on a horse and cart.

Photograph of a barricade across a cobbled street consisting of an assortment of farm machinery, barbed wire, a cart with the legend T McGrath and a barrel bearing the name Pierce; a large group of onlookers stands in the background outside a shop called J. O'Donnell and Co, City Saddlery; people are looking out of upper windows; a badly damaged building is just visible on the left.

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”.

Photograph by W.D. Hogan of a group of Irish Free State Army soldiers grouped behind heavy field artillery; two of the soldiers appear to be manoeuvring the gun into position watched by the others, including one wearing civilian tweeds; the gun is in the middle of a field.

Photograph by W.D. Hogan of an Irish Free State Army soldier in firing position inside a badly damaged house. His rifle is pointed through a hole in the wall of a room; debris is lying on the ground and a door has been kicked off its hinges.

Photograph by W.D. Hogan of four Irish Free State Army soldiers in defensive position along a bank at the side of a road; three are aiming their rifles, the fourth is perched on the top of the bank and is peering through binoculars.

Photograph by W.D. Hogan of three Irish Free State Army members in offensive position on the stairs of a building, possibly a private house.

Photograph of four Irish Free State Army soldiers standing in defensive position facing a fortified wall which abuts onto a street; three are pointing their rifles through apertures; the fourth has turned to the camera and is smiling broadly.

Photograph of a large group of people, mainly children, standing in front of a wooden hut with a sign Athletic Club; a row of terraced houses is in the background; the accompanying Publicity Department caption identifies the group as Catholics who were refugees from their own home which has been looted and burned and were now being accommodated in makeshift huts.

Photograph of a family loading furniture onto a handcart outside a terraced house; one of the children is barefoot; further up the street furniture has been loaded onto a horse drawn cart outside another house.

Photograph of badly damaged terraced houses (possibly in Antigua Street, Belfast); most are boarded up although the roof is intact; two people are standing at the door of one which appears to be less badly damaged.

Photograph by W.D. Hogan of the ruined interior of the Four Courts. Debris and broken pillars lie around. The imposing statue of a judge has been badly damaged.

View of the façade of the Four Courts from Merchants' Quay (probably by W.D. Hogan); façade shows extensive damage and the entire building is enveloped in thick smoke possibly in the aftermath of the explosion at the PRO.

View of the façade of the Four Courts from Merchants' Quay by W.D. Hogan. Façade shows extensive damage to the west wing from shelling in which three floors and the wall have partially collapsed; the roof has holes and there is masonry missing from the entrance to the west courtyard; the foreground on Merchants' Quay is strewn with debris and broken tram lines; cupola of the Four Courts is shrouded in smoke.