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

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

A 1798 cartoon depicting Henry Grattan by English cartoonist James Gillray.

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…

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She was . . . a bit of all right,” he said regretfully.
He was silent again. Then he added:
“She’s on the turf now. I saw her driving down Earl Street one night with two fellows with her on a car.”
“I suppose that’s your…

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“She’s all right,” said Corley. “I know the way to get around her, man. She’s a bit gone on me.”
“You’re what I call a gay Lothario,” said Lenehan. “And the proper kind of a Lothario, too!”
A shade of mockery relieved the…

This is a photo of Oliver Gogarty who the Buck Mulligan character is based off of.

Calista, wife of Altamont and the lead female character who is seduced by Lothario, in The Fair Penitent.  Print of Calista from the 1791 publication of Nicholas Rowe's The Fair Penitent (1703).  The caption reads:  Miss Bruton as Calista. / And you,…

Pamphlet for the Shelbourne Hotel dated 1902