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A bound volume containing newspaper clippings and ephemera with extensive annotations by Fr. Henry Rope on events relating to the Irish Revolution, the Civil War, the position of Catholics in Northern Ireland, and Anglo-Irish relations. Typescript annotation on inside front cover reads ‘The Revd. H.E.G. Rope, Plowden, Lydbury North, Salop.’ Manuscript title to the volume (on first page) reads ‘Occasional Notes on Ireland (1923)’.
The contents include:
• Clippings from various publications and periodicals including ‘The Leader’, ‘Éire / The Irish Nation’, ‘The Irish World’, ‘The Catholic Times’, ‘The Standard’, ‘An Phoblacht’, ‘The Irish Times’,
• An article titled ‘De Valera’s Designs / Issues in Southern Ireland’ (‘Morning Post’, 24 July 1924, p. 10).
• A review of Daniel Corkery’s ‘The Hidden Ireland’ (‘Catholic Times’, 26 Nov. 1926, p. 21).
• An article on the first death of a hunger striker, ‘Republican Bulletin’ (21 Nov. 1923, p 24).
• An article titled ‘Archbishop Mannix welcomed at Waterford / Freedom of the city conferred’ (‘Cork Examiner’, 13 Aug. 1925, p. 34).
• ‘Nationalities and languages / Specially contributed by Professor Stockley’ (‘Waterford News’, 13 June 1924, p. 39).
Inserts include ‘An appeal for a Catholic and National Monument / St. Patrick’s XV Centenary Memorial (1932) and a flier for the Central Catholic Library, 16 Hawkins Street, Dublin.

Photographic prints by Seán Gaynor, Terenure, Dublin. The prints include images of various scenic locations and townscapes. Most of the images have been captioned. The file includes the following images:

• Bunmahon Strand, County Waterford.
• Lough Corrib, County Galway.
• Slievenamon Mountain, County Tipperary.
• Boatstrand Harbour, County Waterford.
• Two girls fishing in a pond in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
• Whitechurch (Anglican) Church, County Kilkenny
• Inishmore (Aran Islands) off the coast of County Galway.
• The Blue Pool, Glengarriff, County Cork.
• Torc Waterfall, Killarney, County Kerry.
• Healy Pass, County Kerry.
• Kilkenny Castle.
• Portarlington ESB Station, County Offaly.
• Armagh Cathedral.
• Church of St. Pius X, Terenure, Dublin.
• Rathgormack Parish Church, County Waterford.
• Long Hall, University College Cork.
• Spanish Arch, Galway City.
• Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary.
• Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.

Musical score (sheet music) for ‘Ceatha ceóil / An draighneán donn’ by Carl Hardeback (1869-1945). (Dublin, Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1902). Printed, 8 pp.

Musical score (sheet music) for ‘Róisín dubh’ by Carl Hardeback (1869-1945). (Dublin, Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1902).

Short stories by Leon O’Kennedy submitted for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record' (later 'Eirigh'). The stories are titled ‘The Call’, ‘These things are not thine’, ‘The St. Brigid’s Cross’, ‘To Hell or to Connacht’, and ‘Sunset and After’.

Cover addressed to 'The Father Mathew Record' and 'Capuchin Annual Office', Church Street, Dublin, from Leo Vala Photography, Knightsbridge Studios Brompton Road, London. The cover includes two black and white prints and a press release from Vala Photography regarding the proceeds from a sale of a profile print of Christ being donated to the Turin Shroud Investigation Fund.

Draft article by Edward MacLysaght titled ‘S.R. Lysaght: The Author and the Man’. The file also contains a copy manuscript titled ‘Another Imaginary Conversation / 3 Dec. 1931’ compiled for an article titled: ‘Sidney Royce Lysaght: the author and the man’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975), pp 225-229. The piece was written by Edward MacLysaght. The manuscript refers to family reminiscences pertaining especially to his father, Sidney Royse Lysaght (1860-1941), an Irish writer, who worked in the iron industry. His son, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), was a writer and authority on Irish family history. The file also includes two copies of ‘The amazing war experiences of Patrick Lysaght / An Irishman of the Royal Irish Rifles / the first unit to meet the Germans at Mons in 1914’. It is noted that this narrative was first recorded in December 1938.

Draft (with off-print) of an article by Michael Laffan titled ‘Sinn Féin Party / 1916-1921’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1970).