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Letters to Patrick Pearse from John Merritt, Naval Office, Custom House, New York. The letters refer to Pearse’s efforts to raise funds for St. Enda’s School and to Merrit’s thoughts on the nature of the education system in Ireland. The letter of 20 April 1914 refers to Pearse’s attendance at a meeting in Celtic Park in New York. It reads ‘The unprovoked, senseless, brutal, and cowardly physical assault to which you were subjected at Celtic Park yesterday, within a radius of twenty five feet of me, and in which, I believe, two of your teeth were knocked out, has filled me with disgust at the strange, incomprehensible and fiendish actions of some of my misguided countrymen’. One of the letters is incomplete (the upper portion has been torn away).

A postcard print captioned ‘Liberty Hall, Headquarters of the Citizen Army, after Bombardment’.

A clipping of an article referring to the imminent opening of a new gallery for Irish art in Limerick. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (4 September 1946).

A flier with the text of a song dedicated to Daniel Mannix, the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne. The first line of song reads 'A noble preacher, a splendid teacher ...’.

An image of destroyed shops and houses in Lisburn in County Antrim in September 1920. The photograph is credited Wide World Photos. The original caption refers to ‘strong military rule’ and ‘oppression of the English government’.