A clipping of an article reporting on the opening of the Tuam Art Exhibition by Archbishop Joseph Walsh. Reference is made to the kindness shown by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. in lending fifteen artworks ‘of outstanding merit’ to the exhibition. The article is taken from the ‘Tuam Herald’ (7 April 1945). (Volume page 238).
An anti-conscription and anti-English handbill issued with the aim of persuading members of the Royal Irish Constabulary not to support the British war effort. It reads ‘Private Hodgins would have his work cut out for him here but for you. You are the eyes and the ears for him. Do you think that your own people are likely to forget the fact? What do you think Private Hodgins would do if the German stranger was in England and gave him a gun?’.
A profile of the sculptor Oliver Sheppard by John Crampton Walker published in ‘Irish Life’ (19 January 1917). The article includes an image of Sheppard’s ‘The Death of Cuchulainn’ (1911-2).
A clipping of an obituary article titled ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916). The opposite page has a print of Fr. Michael O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’.
A clipping of an obituary or the sculptor Jerome Connor. The article includes an image of Connor with a section of his work for the ‘Lusitania’ memorial in Cobh, County Cork. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Press’ (23 August 1943). (Volume page 117).