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A signed menu card for a reception marking the visit of Cardinal John Joseph Glennon to Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin. The card is signed by Cardinal Glennon. It is also signed by Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (Seán T. O’Kelly), the President of Ireland, and by his wife Phyllis Bean Úi Cheallaigh (Phyllis O’Kelly). The other signatures are those of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, Seán Mac an tSaoi (Seán MacEntee), the Minister of Health, and Séamus Ó Riain (James Ryan), the Minister of Agriculture. Cardinal Glennon died five days later in Dublin (9 March 1946). His body lay in repose in All Hallows College (his old seminary) before being returned to the United States for burial in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.

Flier and subscription card for the St. Enda’s School purchase fund fundraising ‘to return the School to The Hermitage, Rathfarnham’. At foot of second page ‘Signed by F. Murphy and E. Bulfin, Hon. Secs.; Joseph MacDonagh and Rev. Eugene Nevin, C.P. Hon. Treas’. At top right side: ‘St. Enda’s College, Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin’. The text is mainly in English with a small portion in Irish. Published in Dublin by The Gaelic Press. Twenty signatures are extant on the subscription portion of the item.

A copy of ‘St. Stephen’s / A Record of University Life’. The magazine was published by University College Dublin and ran from 1901 to 1906.

Subscription card of Patrick Pearse with the Gresham Publishing Company, 175 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.

Telegram from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. asking him to send the vocabulary for publication in ‘The Father Mathew Record’.

Pledge card of William Pearse affirming his abstinence from intoxicating liquor and enrolling him as a member of the temperance association attached to St. Andrew’s Church on Westland Row in Dublin.

A reprint of an article from the ‘Daily Express’ extolling the ‘noble work done by the Orange Committee’. Issued from the Committee’s Offices in Dublin by Athol Johnson Dudgeon, honorary secretary.

A copy of ‘The Life of Sir Roger Casement Knt., C.M.G.’ by Robert McGahan (1863-1942). Published by the ‘Northern Constitution’ in Coleraine.

A copy of ‘The mystery man of Banna Strand / the life and death of Captain Robert Monteith’ by Florence Monteith Lynch (New York: Vantage Press, [1959]). Ink stamp on first page reads: ‘St. Francis Capuchin College, Rochestown’. Florence Monteith Lynch was the daughter of Robert Monteith. The book is illustrated with black and white photographs. The copy is signed by Florence Monteith Lynch.

A single ticket of James Joseph O’Kelly for a journey from Le Havre to Dublin (via Southampton and London). 20 February 1871. With a cover addressed to ‘Monsieur O’Kelly, Hotel de Londres, Le Havre, France’. The one-page account note is endorsed ‘7205’.