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Two postcard prints captioned ‘St. Mary’s Abbey, Quarr – General View by Moonlight’ and ‘Avenue, Pantasaph [Capuchin] Monastery’. Cards printed by ‘Valentine’s’ and ‘D.A.L., printing’.

A bound volume containing newspaper clippings containing a transcription by An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire of a medieval text on the life of Colum Cille (also known as Columba) (c.521-597), the founder of the monastery of Iona. The articles also contain translations and textual notes. The clippings are undated, but all the articles are headed ‘Our Gaelic Department / Colum Cille’ and are likely taken from the ‘Cork Examiner’.

A file of clippings relating mainly to commemorations of the life and career of Roger Casement. The file includes several letters to the ‘Irish Times’ from readers (1956) with recollections of Casement and with references to the Casement diaries controversy. The file includes:
• Glens memorial to Irish Patriots unveiled / Big gathering at Cushendun ceremony’ (‘Irish Weekly’, 12 Aug. 1950).
• Desmond Ryan, ‘Casement’, (‘The People’, 27 Nov. 1955)
• ‘The truth about Roger Casement’ by Cathal O’Shannon (‘Empire News and Sunday Chronicle’, 25 Dec. 1955). Note: Scan?
• ‘Cathal O’Shannon writes of a woman [Máire Ní Chilín] who was to have helped in Casement rescue’ (Evening Press’, 4 May 1956).
• ‘A German writes in defence of Casement’ by Peadar O’Curry (‘Sunday Independent’, 8 July 1956).
• ‘Author advocates return of Casement’s remains’ (‘Irish Times’, 11 June 1956).
• ‘Bogus yacht tried to trap Casement’ by Cathal O’Shannon (‘Evening Press’, 16 Dec. 1955).
• ‘Casement spurious / Alfred Noyes attacks British Home Office’ (‘Irish Press’, 18 May 1956).
• ‘Memories of Roger Casement’ by Bulmer Hobson (‘Sunday Press’, 22 Apr. 1956). Note: Scan?
• ‘Official silence maintained / Commons Debate on Casement Diaries’ (‘Irish Independent’, 4 Sept. 1956).
• ‘Enigma of Roger Casement’ by John W. Klien (‘Everybody’s’, 2 Mar. 1956).
• ‘The Mystery of Sir Roger Casement’ by R. Dudley Edwards (‘The Leader’, 26 May 1956).
• ‘Two deaths: Casement is their link’ by Cathal O’Shannon (‘Evening Press, 24 Feb. 1956).
• W.H.S. Truell, ‘Serjeant Sullivan and the Casement Trial’, (‘Irish Times’, 13 Jan. 1959).

Letter from Terence MacSwiney (Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne) to Diarmuid [Ó Murchadha]. The letter encloses a printed notice from John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, Chief Press Censor for Ireland, asking newspaper editors to refrain from publishing a statement issued by the members of a Cork club of Sinn Féin re an attack on the club by Royal Irish Constabulary (5 December 1917).

Letters from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), An Cumann Gaelach, University College Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. re Irish language content in 'The Father Mathew Record' and corrections and emendations to the serial publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”' (by Tadhg Ó Murchadha) in the periodical.

Flier from Anthony Traill to the electors of the University of Dublin (Trinity College). Trail affirms that he ‘shall the Church of Ireland from the misrepresentations of those who seem anxious to make further raids upon the property of the Representative Church Body, by careful financial management, has succeeded in accumulating’. He confirms that in politics he has ‘always been a Conservative’. The file includes a list of committee members supporting Trail’s candidacy.

Letters from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne, 1872-1942) to Fr. Henry Rope. Two of the letters are copies (Rope notes that the copies were made in 1947 and that he deposited the originals in the archives of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome). One of the copy letters (dated 21 Nov. 1922) refers to Mary MacSwiney’s treatment by the Free State authorities. It reads ‘The hardest part of my trial here is being deprived of the Sacraments as I have not succeeded in finding a priest who will be satisfied to hear the confession of my sins and let my political convictions alone’. The original letter (26 Oct. 1930) refers to the ‘terrible airship disaster’ involving R 101, a British rigid airship. The disaster claimed the lives of forty-eight of the fifty-four people on board including Fr. Henry Rope’s younger brother, Squadron Leader Frederick Michael Rope.

Letters from George Noble Plunkett (1851-1948), 40 Elgin Road, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. The letters include references to Plunkett’s desire to establish an ‘Academy of Christian Art’ in Dublin, Catholic literature, Father Rope’s visits to the Plunkett residence, and to contemporary political matters and public affairs in both Britain and Ireland. A recurring theme in the correspondence is Plunkett’s continuing republican opposition to the post-Treaty settlement in Ireland. An extract from a letter
written on 21 November 1929 reads:

‘I don’t want to write about politics, but I remind you that “if you want peace, you must prepare for war”; and, that a resolute nation, whose spokesmen refuse to accept threats, generally secures its liberty. We had won, when [Arthur] Griffith and [Michael] Collins surrendered: I have been assured of this by well informed unionists. I doubt that any man today is slave enough to echo John O’Connell’s dictum. “Nuff ced”, as the Yankees put it.
I think you asked me why we are for a Republic. Well, how otherwise could we get rid of a foreign King? And a “class” Upper House”? And the tradition of Heaven-born Ministers? We are republicans because we are a nation of aristocrats, and so all equal; a true democracy.
My pen is running dry.
Yours very sincerely,
G.N. Count Plunkett
To be continued in our next’.

The file also includes some letters from George Noble Plunkett’s wife (Josephine Plunkett née Cranny), and daughter Mary Plunkett. The letter from Mary Plunkett refers to the death of Count Plunkett. It reads ‘The poor old man was in bed for more than three years. We expected that he would go very quickly. Instead of that he was dying for twelve days. The poor old body was worn out, but that strong valiant spirit held on. He suffered a lot, so much that we prayed that God would take him. The end was very quiet’. (5 May 1948). A letter to Fr. Senan Moynihan from Fr. Henry Rope in this file refers to his donation of Plunkett's correspondence ‘for your Archives, which may also one day be of historical interest’. He also notes that he has given some of his correspondence with Count Plunkett to Saint Isidore’s College in Rome. (20 Dec. 1951)

Letter from Ludwig Christian Stern to Fr. Richard Henebry enclosing printed extracts from the latter’s ‘Life of Colum Cille’.

Copies of ‘The Catholic Record of Waterford and Lismore’ from May 1916 (Vol. IV, No. 39) to Oct. 1916 (Vol. IV, No. 44). The editions contain tributes to the late Fr. Richard Henebry written by Fr. Michael Sheehan.