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Pledge card of William Pearse affirming his abstinence from intoxicating liquor and enrolling him as a member of the temperance association attached to St. Andrew’s Church on Westland Row in Dublin.

Subscription card of Patrick Pearse with the Gresham Publishing Company, 175 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.

A copy of ‘St. Stephen’s / A Record of University Life’. The magazine was published by University College Dublin and ran from 1901 to 1906.

Flier and subscription card for the St. Enda’s School purchase fund fundraising ‘to return the School to The Hermitage, Rathfarnham’. At foot of second page ‘Signed by F. Murphy and E. Bulfin, Hon. Secs.; Joseph MacDonagh and Rev. Eugene Nevin, C.P. Hon. Treas’. At top right side: ‘St. Enda’s College, Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin’. The text is mainly in English with a small portion in Irish. Published in Dublin by The Gaelic Press. Twenty signatures are extant on the subscription portion of the item.

Photographic print of a residential house. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘1913’. The location may possibly relate the area around Cullenswood House on Oakley Road in Dublin.

Receipt for rates (£13 10s) for Cullenswood House, Oakley Road, in the district of Rathmines and Rathgar paid by Patrick Pearse in March 1915.

A poster for a benefit performance of two plays by Patrick Pearse in Foresters’ Hall on Parnell Square (formerly Rutland Square) in Dublin in about 1919. The plays were ‘The Singer’ (written in 1915) and ‘Íosagán’ (initially published as a short story by Pearse in 1907 and adapted as a play in 1910). Foresters’ Hall, located at the rear of 41 Parnell Square, was built in 1912 for the Irish National Foresters (INF). The event was organised in aid of St. Enda’s School. The poster was printed by The Gaelic Press.

A poster advertising an ‘Aeridheacht’ (or open day) at St. Enda’s School in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Patrick Pearse regularly organised an ‘Aeridheacht’ on the grounds of the school to support Scoil Éanna. These events were also used to promote the Irish language, music, sports, and customs.

Postcard to Patrick Pearse from an individual in Ballymacahill Inver, County Donegal, seeking a copy of the prospectus for St. Enda’s School and ‘any pamphlets from your pen’. The signature is indecipherable.

Postcard to Margaret Mary Pearse, 39 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin. The correspondent signature reads ‘May’. The postcard shows a view of Menlough Castle, County Galway.