Flier promoting the interest of Edward Gibson (1837-1913) to the electors of the Trinity College, Dublin. In 1875, Gibson won a parliamentary by-election in the TCD constituency against an official candidate.
Flier from Archbold Robinson referring to the voting papers for Dodgson Madden at the University of Dublin election. Printed by Charles Chambers, 36 Dame Street, Dublin.
A draft text by Fr. Richard Henebry on a vellum manuscript held in the Royal Irish Academy. The text appears to be an astronomical and medical text (catalogued as MS B ii 1) dating to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Henebry refers to the frontispiece of this text which contains an ‘astronomical rotula with a moveable index, containing [the] names of the Signs of the Zodiac and the planets in Latin; also the names of the months and the numeral figures’.
‘The nationalisation of Irish education / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey / Professor of Irish, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth / Vice-President of the Gaelic League’. Published in Dublin (Gaelic League Pamphlets – No. 27).
Programme for the Feis na-Déise event held in the Christian Brothers’ school grounds in Dungarvan, County Waterford, in August 1903. Fr. Richard Henebry was one of the adjudicators for the poetry and singing competitions.
An offprint of a tribute/assessment of Professor Heinrich Zimmer by Fr. Richard Henebry. The article was published in ‘The Irish Educational Review’, Vol. IV, No. 5 (Feb. 1911).
An article titled ‘Geoffrey Keating’ by Fr. Richard Henebry. The article is taken from the ‘Journal of the Ivernian Society’ (July-Sept., 1913), pp 197-202.
A copy letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire, Castlelyons, County Cork, to Sister Treasa le hÍosa (possibly Sister Teresa Curtis, St. Clare’s Convent, Carlow). The letter refers to an Irish translation of a traditional Marian hymn. The letter reads ‘This Irish hymn can be sung to the same music to which the English senseless one is usually sung’.