A clipping of a report on the decision of the British government to ban all travel between Great Britain and Ireland. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (3 March 1944).
Bill of account of William Magee, wholesale and provision merchant and family grocer, 7 Rathmines Terrace, Dublin, with Patrick Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Dublin.
Bill of costs from James Pearse to James G. Alexander, solicitor, re proceedings against E.H. Johnston, a bankrupt. With an annotation noting that Alexander has received the sum of £6 6s in full settlement of the balance due.
A biographical sketch of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and an assessment of his work as editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The article reads ‘Last year Capuchin Periodicals transferred their editorial offices from the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, to nine large rooms in an old Georgian house at the foot of Capel Street ...’. The article includes a review of the 1941 edition of the ‘Annual’. It was published in the ‘Connacht Sentinel’ (4 February 1941).
A photographic print of the blessing of the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary of Vence), frequently referred to as the Matisse Chapel, on the French Rivera. The Dominican chapel is notable for having been built and decorated between 1947 and 1951 under a plan devised by the artist Henri Matisse (1889-1954).
A clipping of a report on the bombardment of Liberty Hall by the steamer ‘Helga’ during the insurrection. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given but it is most likely from the ‘Irish Times’.
An image of a large group of pilgrims from Boston, Massachusetts, preparing to disembark from a tender at Cobh in County Cork in August 1949. The group were part of a pilgrimage organised by Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. (Volume page 65).