Life insurance policy letter from the Patriotic Assurance Company for Patrick Pearse, 5 George’s Ville (now Sandymount Avenue), Dublin. 5 Feb. 1901. The insurance policy is for £300 at the rate of £1 6s 1d payable half yearly … ‘the sum assured being payable at death or at 60 years of age with profits’. With a receipt for payment on said policy dated 31 January 1902.
Three copy photographic images showing James and Margaret Pearse with their children Margaret Mary (born 1878), Patrick (born 1879), William (born 1881) and Mary Brigid (born 1884). Manuscript annotation on the reverse of two of the prints reads ‘Photo’s Geoghegan’s, Dublin’.
A printed appeal ‘to the Irish Race’ for funds to keep St. Enda’s School at the Hermitage, Rathfarnham in Dublin. Published by Comhartha-Chuimhne Phadraic agus Liam Mhic Phiarais. The first page has a photograph of Patrick Pearse.
A cover annotated ‘Pearse book’. Includes a clipping of a short article from the ‘Evening Mail’ (1 Feb. 1955) re a work called the ‘Bugle Calls’ supposedly written and composed by Gerald Crofts for Patrick Pearse before 1916.
Personal cheque from William Pearse’s personal bank account with the Terenure branch of the Royal Bank of Ireland Limited, for the payment of £2 to Percy C. Webb. The cheque is signed by Pearse.
A clipping of a report on the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Secretary for Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 6 May 1882. The report was published in the ‘Morning Post’ newspaper.
Clippings of photographs relating to the life of Dom Columba Marmion OSB taken from an uncited publication. The file includes images of Marimon’s family in Dublin, ‘Joseph Marmion (Clonliffe, 1876)’, Marmion in Louvain in 1900, Maredsous Abbey, and Marmion with Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier.