Showing 63 results

Letter to Patrick Pearse from A. Brendan Ford, editor, ‘New York Freeman’s Journal and Catholic Register’, 13 Barclay Street, New York. Ford suggests that Pearse has ‘one of the highest gifts from the Gods – the trick of swaying hearts with your words’. The letter appears be incomplete.

A letter to Margaret Mary Pearse from Delia Larkin forwarding a payment for tuition fees to St. Enda’s School. The tuition fees are seemingly for her nephew Jim Larkin Jnr (or ‘Young Jim’ as he came to be known) who, at this time, lived with her in her residence on Gardiner Place.

Letter to Margaret Mary Pearse from a Jesuit priest at St. Francis Xavier Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, inviting her to the Father Theobald Mathew celebrations in the Mansion House. The letter concludes with ‘God bless our new Senator’.

Card to Margaret Mary Pearse from an individual in Cork expressing their delight on hearing that St. Enda’s School is re-opening. The signature is indecipherable.

Letter to James Pearse from R. Forder, publisher, 28 Stonecutter Street, London, regarding an order for books from Pearse.

Letter to James Pearse from George Standring, printer and publisher 7 & 9 Finsbury Street, London. The letter refers to disappointing sales for a publication and his advertising for the same in the ‘Freethinker’ and ‘National Reformer’ magazines.

Letter to James Pearse from George St. Clair, 127 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, expressing his thanks for sending the ‘small volume by “Humanitas”’.

A letter to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to Leon Ó Brion’s request for copies of photographs of the Pearse family for a publication in Belgium. The letter notes that Senator Margaret Mary Pearse claimed that Moynihan had ‘the best collection there was’.

A manuscript letter and report titled ‘Lectures on Consumption and Fevers in South Connemara’. (c.1908). Reference is made in the letter to ‘Mr [Patrick] Pearse, editor of An Claidheamh Soluis’, and to various public lectures on health-related matters in the Connemara district. The item appears to be incomplete, and the author of the report is not given.

Manuscript list of names in Irish (possibly compiled by Patrick Pearse). The list includes Con Colbert, Brian O’Higgins, The O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille), and Patrick Pearse.