An anti-Treaty republican handbill. The text reads ‘Mr. [William T.] Cosgrave stated on Sunday in Dublin, that the Republican Hunger-strikers are in jail because life and property were not safe while they were at large. … During the past six months, sixteen Free State Soldiers have been convicted in the criminal courts for robbery under arms and murder. .. Not even one Republican soldier has been charged with any of these offences. Who then are the robbers?’.
A clipping of a report on a meeting of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland at which the country’s right to the paintings in the Hugh Lane Bequest was asserted. The article was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (31 March 1949).
A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) by Professor William Magennis. The article was published in ‘Model Housekeeping’ (February 1936).
Revenue accounts for Patrick Pearse and Saint Enda’s School in Rathfarnham, for the year ended 30 June 1912. The accounts provide details of expenditure and income relating to the operation of the school. Also includes a statement of the financial affairs of the school as of 30 June 1912 with details of liabilities and assets. The accounts were prepared by D. O’Connor, chartered accountants, 13 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. He notes that ‘the statement of affairs was prepared from the books, and from creditors’ statements of account, and from information supplied by Mr. Pearse. The valuations of assets were made by Mr. Pearse’.
A clipping of an account of the opening days of the Rising by Rev. Gordon Clements, The Manse, Donore, South Circular Road, Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’ (3 May 1916).
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).
Circular reporting the resolutions passed at a meeting of the County Louth branch of the Property Defence Association held in Dundalk on 21 October 1881. The circular was issued by Townley Macartney-Filgate, honorary secretary.
Circular letter from James Stopford, 5th Earl of Courtown (1823-1914) enclosing a printed copy of resolutions passed by the Property Defence Association at the annual general meeting held on 25 January 1884. The letter reads ‘It was the unanimous opinion of the meeting that there is nothing in the present condition or immediate prospects of the country to warrant us in relaxing in the smallest degree our efforts for the preservation of property’.
