A bound volume containing newspaper clippings and ephemera with extensive annotations by Fr. Henry Rope on events relating to the Irish Revolution, the Civil War, the position of Catholics in Northern Ireland, and Anglo-Irish relations. Typescript annotation on inside front cover reads ‘The Revd. H.E.G. Rope, Plowden, Lydbury North, Salop.’ Manuscript title to the volume (on first page) reads ‘Occasional Notes on Ireland (1923)’.
The contents include:
• Clippings from various publications and periodicals including ‘The Leader’, ‘Éire / The Irish Nation’, ‘The Irish World’, ‘The Catholic Times’, ‘The Standard’, ‘An Phoblacht’, ‘The Irish Times’,
• An article titled ‘De Valera’s Designs / Issues in Southern Ireland’ (‘Morning Post’, 24 July 1924, p. 10).
• A review of Daniel Corkery’s ‘The Hidden Ireland’ (‘Catholic Times’, 26 Nov. 1926, p. 21).
• An article on the first death of a hunger striker, ‘Republican Bulletin’ (21 Nov. 1923, p 24).
• An article titled ‘Archbishop Mannix welcomed at Waterford / Freedom of the city conferred’ (‘Cork Examiner’, 13 Aug. 1925, p. 34).
• ‘Nationalities and languages / Specially contributed by Professor Stockley’ (‘Waterford News’, 13 June 1924, p. 39).
Inserts include ‘An appeal for a Catholic and National Monument / St. Patrick’s XV Centenary Memorial (1932) and a flier for the Central Catholic Library, 16 Hawkins Street, Dublin.
