Letter from Robert. M.D. Sanders, Honorary Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention. Sanders asks for ‘particulars of any sales of tenant right’. He adds that the committee ‘desire this information for the purpose of ascertaining the relative value of the tenant right on estates’ since the passage of the Land Act of 1881.
Letter from B.R. Balfour, Townley Hall, Drogheda, County Louth, to John Ribton Garstin, Braganstown, Castlebellingham, County Louth, referring to enclosed papers relating to the ‘Irish Landowners’ Convention and the Irish Unionist Alliance’.
Circular letter from Gilbert De L. Willis, Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention, re the forthcoming annual meeting of the Convention to be held in Dublin.
A flier from the Irish Defence Union titled ‘What Boycotting Means’. The flier includes a list of general committee members of the Irish Defence Union ‘in aid of persons suffering from illegal coercion in Ireland’.
Flier promoting the interest of Edward Gibson (1837-1913) to the electors of the Trinity College, Dublin. In 1875, Gibson won a parliamentary by-election in the TCD constituency against an official candidate.
Flier from Archbold Robinson referring to the voting papers for Dodgson Madden at the University of Dublin election. Printed by Charles Chambers, 36 Dame Street, Dublin.
A draft text by Fr. Richard Henebry on a vellum manuscript held in the Royal Irish Academy. The text appears to be an astronomical and medical text (catalogued as MS B ii 1) dating to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Henebry refers to the frontispiece of this text which contains an ‘astronomical rotula with a moveable index, containing [the] names of the Signs of the Zodiac and the planets in Latin; also the names of the months and the numeral figures’.
‘The nationalisation of Irish education / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey / Professor of Irish, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth / Vice-President of the Gaelic League’. Published in Dublin (Gaelic League Pamphlets – No. 27).
Programme for the Feis na-Déise event held in the Christian Brothers’ school grounds in Dungarvan, County Waterford, in August 1903. Fr. Richard Henebry was one of the adjudicators for the poetry and singing competitions.