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An anthology of poetry titled ‘Liber Anotationum de Poeticis scriptis’ dated 1 June 1846 at Sancte Cuthberte Collegio. The annotated anthology of poems appears to have been compiled by Percy Nugent, possibly a clerical student at St Cuthbert’s College, Durham (formerly the English College, Douai and now Ushaw College). The transcribed poems included ‘The Smugglers’ Cane’, ‘Lines written upon a Waterfall’ and ‘The Burning of Moscow’. Explanatory footnotes are given. For example at pp 25-6: ‘This piece is written as a sort of conversation between The Exile and a countryman of his, when he meets in his banishment. P[ercy] N[ugent]. It was written ante Xmas 1843. It is very faulty throughout but at the time it was composed, the author had no perfect knowledge of English Poetry having never studied its principles. P[ercy] N[ugent]’.

Recollections by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. of the fighting of Easter Week, the surrender of the rebel forces and subsequent execution of their leaders. He provides an eye-witness account of the executions in Kilmainham Jail most notably that of James Connolly. The typescript copies are incomplete: 17 pp + 11 pp. With an undated typescript copy of ‘Connolly’s death speech’ taken from the 'Gaelic American'.

A record by Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. of events between 30 April and 4 May 1916. Most of the memoir refers to his interaction with British military officers and his efforts to minister to the rebel leaders prior to their executions in Kilmainham Jail. The memoir begins: ‘I have been asked repeatedly to write out a detailed and connected account of my personal experiences, what I actually saw and did during the Rising. At length I have decided to comply with the request. I do so however not with the intention of ever publishing this report. … As I sit then at my desk here in the silence and solitude of my monastic cell in Dublin, fourteen weeks have elapsed since those eventful days. I take up my pen. …’.

Copy of a special supplement to the 'Cork Examiner' commemorating its 50,000th edition. The supplement includes a section titled ‘Remembering Father Mathew’ at p. 11.

A manuscript titled ‘Ruaidrí na cnoc’ by Tomás Ó Raghallaigh (1881-1966).

Date: [c.1728]
Author: Unknown
Publisher: Missing title page

A bound volume with a title on the front cover which reads ‘Newspaper Cuttings’. The volume contains numerous original letters and newspaper clippings offering mainly favourable testimonials on editions of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ published in 1934 and 1935. The volume contains content from various prominent politicians, religious figures, artists, and writers including Peter F. Anson, Fr. Paschal Robinson OFM, Sophie Raffalovich O’Brien, Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., Archbishop William Hayden, D.L. Kelleher, Archbishop Thomas O’Donnell, Eamon Broy, John Whelan Dulanty (High Commissioner for the Irish Free State in London), Marion King, Frank Duff, Somhairle Mac Cana, Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Fr. Cuthbert McCann OFM Cap., Bishop Patrick Finegan, Bishop Robert Browne, Eamonn O’Neill, Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., and Bishop James Roche.