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A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to the detention of Francis Stuart (1902-2000) by the French authorities. She references her daughter's (Iseult Stuart) anxiety regarding his plight and affirms that ‘Francis is a man worth saving’.

A letter from Art O'Brien (Art Ó Briain, 1872-1949) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. O'Brien refers to his ongoing ill-health and requests the return of some photographs which he lent to Fr. Senan to illustrate an article of his published in 'The Capuchin Annual'.

A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / the interior of the ballroom, Imperial Hotel, Dublin, after the siege’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.

A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Talbot Street, Dublin, held against a rebel charge. Picture taken under fire’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.

An article reporting on the return by Captain E.J. Hitzen of some mementoes and ephemera he captured following the 1916 Rising. The items included the white flag used by Éamon de Valera during the surrender of Boland’s Mill. The article also refers to Hitzen’s recollections of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (5 April 1948).

A clipping of an appreciation of Margaret Kennedy (1892-1953) by R.M. Fox published in ‘The Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner’ (13 June 1953). Kennedy was a member of Cumann na mBan who served in Marrowbone Lane during the Rising. She was subsequently imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail. She later worked with the Irish National Aid Association and became a captain in Cumann na mBan (1920), and later a Commandant.

A clipping of a letter from Kathleen Clark published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ in which she gives her recollections of the planning of the 1916 Rising. She refers to P.S. O’Hegarty’s assertion that the rebellion was only planned for Dublin. The letter is dated 29 July 1949 at 40 Merlyn Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin.

A clipping of a report on the outbreak of the rebellion in Dublin taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (25 April 1916).

An account of the opening days of the Easter Rising in Dublin by Harry Webber published in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).

A clipping of a pictorial map showing ‘the points attacked in the City of Dublin by the Sinn Féin rebels’. The illustration was printed in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).