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A flier seeking support for the Fianna Fáil party at the forthcoming general election. The flier has a printed signature of Éamon de Valera. (Volume page 226).

A clipping of an article reflecting on the American tour of Fr. Tom Burker OP, a noted Irish Dominican preacher and historian. Burke visited the United States in 1871. (Volume page 213).

A postcard print of the grave of Fr. Nicholas Sheehy in Clogheen in County Tipperary. Father Sheehy (c.1728-1766) was a local priest who was executed following what were widely believed to be false charges of involvement in agrarian unrest during the Penal Law era.

Printed facsimile of a letter from Fr. Albert Bibby to the editor of ‘The Monitor’ referring to his worsening condition in in St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, California. He writes ‘It is hard to feel that that I may not see dear old Ireland again, or my good mother, sisters and friends there. It would lessen the sacrifice to be laid to rest with Rory [O’Connor] and the boys in Glasnevin’. He adds that he has no bitterness towards his political opponents’. (Volume page 91).

A clipping of an article reprinting a copy of Fr. Albert Bibby’s final letter to Éamon de Valera pledging his ‘unchanged and unchangeable, and uncompromising’ allegiance to the Republic and to you, its President’. He argues that ‘in the movement for the independence of Ireland I have always endeavoured to remember that I was a Capuchin Priest’. The volume also includes a covering letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to de Valera enclosing Bibby’ letter and referring to the latter’s ailing health. O’Connor concludes by stating that it is ‘better to die in agony than for freedom than live in luxurious freedom’. (Volume page 116).

A facsimile copy of an original tribute to Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin (d. 26 February 1852).

A clipping of a facsimile copy of a ten shilling note issued by the Limerick Soviet. The caption notes that the photograph was published in the ‘Daily Mail’ in 1919. The note carries the inscription around the edges: ‘General Strike Against British Militarism. Limerick April 1919’; and in the centre: ‘The Workers of Limerick promise to pay the bearer ten shillings for The Limerick Trades and Labour Council’. The note is signed by the chairman and treasurer.

A card publicising an exhibition of art from the Joseph Brennan Collection at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin. The exhibition included sculptures by Albert Power and Jerome Connor and paintings by Walter Osborne and Nathaniel Hone.

A clipping of a report of the executions of James Connolly and Seán MacDermott (Seán Mac Diarmada) in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin on 12 May 1916. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (13 May 1916).

A clipping of a report on the executions in Mountjoy Jail of Edward Foley and Patrick Maher, who were convicted of having shot an RIC sergeant, Patrick Wallace, during an ambush in Knocklong in May 1919. Reference is also made to the execution of Constable William Mitchell, who was convicted of the murder of Robert Dixon, a magistrate who was killed during a robbery at his home in Dunlavin in County Wicklow. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (7 June 1921).