An account extract for St. Enda’s School. Includes entries re liabilities and assets. References are made to ‘pupils’ fees paid’, laundry expenses, medical bills, and ‘grazing rents’. An entry refers to an overdraft from the Hibernian Bank ‘secured by lease of Cullenswood House, life insurance …’. The extract appears to be in the hand of Patrick Pearse.
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.
Draft of an article by Fr. Clifford J. Stevens titled ‘Father Flanagan of Boys Town’. The article was written in 1967 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Boys Town, Nebraska, by Fr. Edward Joseph Flanagan. Fr. Stevens was a graduate of Boys Town and served as a chaplain in the United States Air Force stationed in Japan.
Photographic print of an unidentified family group. The group includes the father and presumably the eldest son in military uniform. Three younger boys, a mother, and presumably a daughter are also present in the image.
Offprint of an article by Burke Wilkinson titled ‘Erskine Childers / The Boston Connection’. The article was originally published in the 'Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society', 86 (1974), pp 53-63.
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 Dodgson Hamilton Madden for the impending Trinity College (Dublin University) by-election. The flier reads ‘I have always been a firm supporter of the Conservative party, and I look upon its present position with pride. That party, with the patriotic aid of the Liberal Unionists, has succeeded in averting from the Empire disintegration and dishonour, and from Ireland a signal and crushing disaster’. Madden received 1,376 in the contest and was elected an MP.