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Two souvenir handkerchiefs sold by the Irish Players 'with the proceeds to be put towards a building to save Sir Hugh Lane's 'Great Gift of Pictures for Ireland', also enclosed two programmes for the Irish players' performance in the Royal Court Theatre of 'The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet' by George Bernard Shaw.

A Broadside published by E.C. Yeats at the Cuala Press; features poems by Padraic Colum

A Broadside published by E.C. Yeats at the Cuala Press; features poem or song 'Buck have ye all; or, the picture of a playhouse'.

A Broadside published by E.C. Yeats at the Cuala Press, includes poem by Con O'Leary 'The Fugitive', signed by Con O'Leary 'To Arthur Shields with deep appreciation and recollection'

Flyer for a lecture on 'Italian Highways and Byways' to be delivered at 35 Dawson Street by Mr. Fred Clibborn. (26/03/192?)

Arthur Shields joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 with his friend Charles Saurin. He apparently kept his rifle hidden under the Abbey stage. On Easter Monday 1916 he got separated from his company when he went to collect his rifle from the Abbey. Instead he joined a group led by James Connolly and spent the week of the rising in the G.P.O.

Letter from Arthur Shields, Knutsford, C/O Chief Postal Censor, London, addressed to 'Everybody' (His immediate family). The letter was written from the internment camp in Knutsford, Kent where Shields had been interned after the 1916 rising. Shields writes that 'Things here have changed a great deal. In my last note I wrote an extract from our rules and you can imagine what sort of time we had but now that is all changed. We can talk, read, smoke, receive newspapers and parcels.' Shields also describes a visit from Alfie Byrne who had been elected M.P. in a By-Election in 1915 and later became Lord Mayor of Dublin. Shields also enquires as to the well being of his family, including his father's employment, 'Papa, I was worried as to what you were doing. I saw, the day we left Dublin, that there was a good deal of damage done to the "Freeman" office, I hoped that it wasn't properly destroyed.'

Photocopy of a letter from Charles Saurin addressed to William (Barry Fitzgerald), the letter was sent from an internment camp in Britain. The letter describes how Lini Shields (later Lini Saurin) had been visiting them in the camp, 'Since Friday last Lini has been to see us every day.' He briefly describes the food in the camp and the recent changes in regime which have allowed them to read books again, 'Books - that's what we missed most. Now we're alright.'

Handwritten manuscript of a poem entitled 'Life and Death', begins 'Man d'ye hear them marching?' inscription in the same hand reads 'Composed during solitary confinement by a member of the Irish Republican Army June 1916 Knutsford prison.'