Stuk 35/1/1/1 - 1893004 Hubert Carruth 1882013 Benedict Donegan Gilbert, Sir John Donegan, Thomas

Hubert Carruth, C.P., - This item is in fact a volume in tooled leather binding containing 10 black and white photographs of an illuminated address designed and executed by Hubert Carruth and presented by his students (their signatures being on photograph 10) to their Lector, Benedict Donegan, on the occasion of their ordination on 04/06/1898. It has a MS note by Hubert, written in June, 1923 (the Silver Jubilee year), relating that the orignal was executed in his spare time over two years while preparng for ordination and that each page, when completed, was shown to the Dublin art students with explanations and a lecture by Sir John Gilbert. At the time of the Silver Jubilee the original was in the possession of Benedict's brother, Thomas Donegan, Springfield Road, Belfast.