An image of a large group of pilgrims from Boston, Massachusetts, preparing to disembark from a tender at Cobh in County Cork in August 1949. The group were part of a pilgrimage organised by Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. (Volume page 65).
A clipping of a report on the bombardment of Liberty Hall by the steamer ‘Helga’ during the insurrection. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given but it is most likely from the ‘Irish Times’.
A photographic print of the blessing of the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary of Vence), frequently referred to as the Matisse Chapel, on the French Rivera. The Dominican chapel is notable for having been built and decorated between 1947 and 1951 under a plan devised by the artist Henri Matisse (1889-1954).
A biographical sketch of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and an assessment of his work as editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The article reads ‘Last year Capuchin Periodicals transferred their editorial offices from the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, to nine large rooms in an old Georgian house at the foot of Capel Street ...’. The article includes a review of the 1941 edition of the ‘Annual’. It was published in the ‘Connacht Sentinel’ (4 February 1941).
A clipping of a report on the decision of the British government to ban all travel between Great Britain and Ireland. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (3 March 1944).
An image showing women vacating their homes in Balbriggan in County Dublin. The photograph is titled ‘Refugees from the Irish Front’. The caption notes that the ‘population has been terror-stricken by the recent lawlessness which has caused so much damage’.
Attendance record of the first and second Dublin Battalions of the Irish Volunteers. The entries are dated 15 April 1916. The record includes the signatures of Seán Heuston (Seán Mac Aodha), Richard McKee, Mícheál Ó Murchadha, The O’Reilly (Ua Rathghaille), William Pearse, and Thomas MacDonagh.
A clipping of a report on the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson by Irish republicans. The report is taken from ‘Country Life’ (1 July 1922).