A clipping of an article by Daniel Corkery referring to the life and career of William Frederick Paul Stockley. The article was published in ‘The Standard’ (6 August 1943). (Volume page 227).
A clipping of a photograph taken from the Chancellor Studio on Lower Sackville (O’Connell) Street. The photograph is described as a ‘remarkable relic of the rebellion’ as it is riddled with shrapnel from the fighting during the insurrection. The image shows (left) Edward White Benson (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury, and (right) William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket (1828-1897), the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.
A postcard print of the attendees at the first sitting of the First Dáil on 21 January 1919. The names of the individuals are printed (in Irish) under the image.
A postcard print of the attendees at a sitting of the First Dáil on 10 April 1919. The names of the individuals are printed (in Irish) under the image.
A programme for a concert organised by Cumann na mBan in Bray, County Wicklow. The date is not given but an accompanying note elsewhere in the volume suggests that the event was held just a few weeks before the 1916 Rising. Many of the performers in the concert were participants in the Rising. Douglas ffrench-Mullen (1892-1943) was a younger brother of Madeleine ffrench-Mullen, the well-known republican, feminist, and labour activist. He served in the South Dublin Union under Éamonn Ceannt during the Rising. He was wounded during the fighting and was detained initially in Richmond Barracks and later at Frongoch Camp in Wales. Ffrench-Mullen was released in September 1916. His fellow accompanist at the Bray concert was the Carlow-born Cathal Mac Dubhghaill (d. 1926). A talented musician and composer, he arranged the music for Peadar Kearney ‘A Soldier’s Song’ in its published form. He participated in the Rising and was afterwards interned at Frongoch Camp, where he illustrated several well-known sketchbooks. Gerard Crofts (1888-1934) was a poet and operatic singer. During the Rising, he served with Commandant William James Brennan-Whitmore in the General Post Office and in the final retreat to Moore Street. He was court-martialled and sentenced to ten years imprisonment but was released under the terms of a general amnesty in June 1917. Seosamh MacCathmhaoil (Joseph Campbell) was born in Belfast in 1879 and emerged as an influential poet and Irish music lyricist. He supported the Rising and was active as a non-combatant during Easter Week, performing rescue and first-aid work. In 1917, he published a translation from Irish of the short stories of Patrick Pearse. He died in County Wicklow in June 1944. (Volume page 190).
A print of a drawing of the Crawford School of Art (now the Crawford Art Gallery) in Cork. The illustration is by Somhairle McCann, Principal of the School of Art from 1937 to 1967.
This section contains many letters to Fr. Richard Henebry mainly from Irish correspondents. The files includes personal correspondence with many of the letters containing references to the activities of the Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League), Irish language scholarship and activism, Henebry's academic career, and to Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in the Waterford Gaeltacht (Gaeltacht na nDéise).
