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This is a scanned image of a handbook from 1878 that explains the rules and regulations of cricket and provides stats and team records. It is the 14th issue, as the author (John Lawrence) published a new edition each year to update stats and team…

An oil painting by English painter, J.W. Waterhouse, depicting the allure of the Sirens.

A portrait of James Stephens, chief organizer of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood (IRB) and founder of the Fenian movement.

An extract from Lady Augusta Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men, an English translation of select Irish legends. The extract provides a detailed description of the foodstuffs Finn and his band of Fenian warriors discovered at the White Hill in…

This excerpt from a periodical about "The Woman's World" includes advice for women about the fashion trends contemporary to the early 1900s. It represents one of the styles parodied by James Joyce in the "Nausicaa" episode.

An excerpt from a speech given by Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill on February 22nd, 1888. The excerpt provides some of his discussion on the issue of Home Rule and what he generally refers to as the "Irish Question." The excerpt is taken from…

Excerpts from Maria S. Cumming's The Lamplighter (1854), which Gerty makes reference to reading in the "Nausicaa" episode of Ulysses

A Home Rule cartoon from the 1880s depicting Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Home Rule movement who gained the support of a great number of Fenians at home and abroad as a result of his aggressive political stance and his ability to…

A photograph of Patrick Egan, a prominent IRB member and supporter of the Home Rule movement who may have been the namesake of Kevin Egan in Ulysses. 

A photograph of Richard O'Sullivan Burke, one of the men that the Fenians tried to set free in the Clerkenwell affair.