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File Correspondence and Papers of the Pearse Family
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'The books we want written' by Margaret Mary Pearse

Letter from Margaret Mary Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (6 April 1955), conveying her blessings at Easter and remembering her pilgrimage to Rome with the friar. The letter is attached to a typescript (with manuscript additions) of an article titled ‘The books we want written’.

Souvenir Booklet for O’Donovan Rossa Funeral

Copies of ‘Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa, 1831-1915 / souvenir of public funeral to Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, August 1st, 1915'. Includes commemorative essays and poems by Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Arthur Griffith, James Connolly, Brian O’Higgins, and others. The roster of the O’Donovan Rossa Funeral Committee is extant on p. 24. Published in Dublin (Patrick Mahon, printer, 3 Yarnhall Street), in 1915.

Religious Sculptures

Religious Sculptures

Five cartes de visite of sculptural monuments related to the workshop of James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. Some of cards are annotated by James Pearse. Two of the images are described as the ‘Pulpit / Inchicore / Rough model’. One of the cards is annotated on the reverse ‘Pearse & [Edward Sharpe, sculptors]’. One of the cards is credited to the studio of William Lawrence, photographer, 5 & 7 O’Connell Street, Dublin. The decoration of the altar and communion rail in the Church of Mary Immaculate on Tyrconnell Road in Inchicore, Dublin, was crafted by James Pearse. This prominent church was built for the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate between 1875 and 1880.

Religious Sculptures

Religious Sculptures

Three images of sculptural monuments most likely related to the workshop of James Pearse. One of card images is annotated (‘Subjects from Pulpit, Athlone’).

Queen’s Robing Room, House of Lords, London

Queen’s Robing Room, House of Lords, London

Photographic prints annotated on the reverse: ‘J. Pearse / Queen’s Robing Room / House of Lords’. The images appear to show some of the statues of the twenty-six princesses extant in the Queen’s robing room in the House of Lords, London. Pearse made carvings of princesses and robes and crowns for the ‘throne room’ (or the ‘Queen’s robing room’) in the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster.

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