This souvenir book shows some of the devastation suffered by Dublin city centre during the Rising.

The rubble is all that remains of a four-storey building belonging to the bookbinders and printers, Messrs Thom, in Middle Abbey Street.

A number of rare and precious books were sent for repair to Thom’s from the library in the week before the Rising and were lost in the fire.

Images by permission of the estate of T.W. Murphy

Citation:
1916: The Sinn Fein Rebellion
(Belfast, 1916),
Marsh's Library Exhibits: ‘Changed Utterly?’ curated by Elaine Doyle and Jason McElligott,
accessed July 4, 2025,
https://web.marshlibrary.ie/digi/exhibits/show/irishrevolution/item/610