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A copy of 'W. H. Smith & Son’s War Map Of The Transvaal And Adjoining Countries In South Africa With Historical Sketch Of The Boers Etc' (London, 1881). Published by W. H. Smith & Son in London. Original fold-out map. First edition. Produced during the first Boer War (1880-1).

A carte de visite showing a studio portrait of an unidentified religious. The image is credited to the studio of William Lawrence, photographer, 5 & 7 O’Connell Street, Dublin.

A flier noting the establishment of a representative body in London to assist the work of the Emergency Committee in Dublin. The document notes that ‘in many parts of Ireland, owing to the state of terrorism which exists, persons who endeavoured to assert their legal rights cannot procure, except from great distance, the commonest necessaries of life, and are obliged to perform for themselves and families the most menial offices’. The flier expounds on the work of the Emergency Committee in assisting landowners and asks for financial assistance to aid their work.

A manuscript text titled ‘The significance of Fr. Peter O’Leary’. The text reads ‘He [Ó Laoghaire] visualized an Ireland without a city. The city pained him, and he misjudged it – reading “Sgothbhualadh” you sense that’. The article is likely incomplete.

‘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).