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Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘The fact is I am extremely disgusted with what I read in this morning’s papers, especially the action of the ungrateful Irish Party’.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I have written a letter to the “Agnostic Journal” upon [the] same subject (agnosticism and atheism) principally because my name was mentioned therein’.

Copy letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Yeats refers to a 'loan exhibition' which Fr. Senan wants to organize for the artist. Yeats writes 'I am afraid that such an exhibition would be against the sale of my paintings. The suggestion might come to people that I had retired'. A later letter from Yeats in the volume states that he would be in favour of such an exhibition to be held in 1945.

A copy letter from Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. relaying information on the burial of Fr. Louis de Lavagna, an Italian Capuchin friar, in the old St. Mary’s Church in Toronto, Canada.

A photographic print of Constance Markievicz, Éamon de Valera, Darrell Figgis, W.T. Cosgrave, Alice Ginnell, and other republicans in Kilkenny. A manuscript caption gives the names of all the individuals in the group.

A printed target card signed ‘Constance de Markievicz’ and dated 17 March 1922. The target card was used at twenty-five yards distance and shows eight perforations.

A postcard reproduction of a painting of Constance Markievicz by the Polish artist Bolesław Szańkowski (1873-1953). The portrait dates to 1901 when Markievicz was resident in Paris. The postcard reproduction is captioned ‘Constance Countess Markievicz TD’ and probably dates to the early 1920s when she was serving as a Teachta Dála in Dáil Éireann.

A photographic print of Constance Markievicz speaking at a demonstration in Kilkenny on 19 July 1917. Markievicz was speaking at an event held in support of the election campaign of the Sinn Féin candidate W.T. Cosgrave.

A clipping of an image of Constance Markievicz following her court martial. The caption notes that she ‘is seen with the wardress in the Red Cross ambulance which did duty for a “Black Maria”’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.