Photographic print of the Cross of Cong used to illustrate an article by C.J. Finn titled ‘The Cross of Roscommon’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977) at p. 291. The original print is credited to the National Museum of Ireland.
Copy writ of summons to the High Court of Justice (King’s Bench) in the case of Thomas Ward (plaintiff) and Margaret Pearse ‘trading as Pearse & Sons’, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.
Copy requisitions on title to premises on the west side of Cullenswood Avenue in Ranelagh, Dublin, from George Patterson to Patrick Pearse. The requisitions were compiled by French & French, solicitors, St. Stephen’s Green North, Dublin, for W.A. McMullen, solicitor for the purchaser (Pearse), 3 South Frederick Street, Dublin.
Photographic print of Sir John Lavery’s painting titled ‘High Treason: The Appeal of Roger Casement, The Court of Criminal Appeal, 17 and 18 July 1916’. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print credits the photograph to T.F. Geoghegan, 2 Essex Quay, Dublin.
Copy letter from Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to Fr. E.F. Murnane dated 16 July 1916. With a copy extract from a letter from Fr. Murnane, Presbytery, Dockhead, [Bermondsey, London, S.E.], to George Gavan Duffy (Aug. 1917). The extract reads ‘He [Casement] faced death like a gallant Irish gentleman with the added courage and confidence of a good catholic. He talked freely of his death and was looking forward to his confession …’. The copy file concludes with a copy extract from a letter from Fr. James Carey, prison chaplain, giving a brief account of Casement’s piety before his execution.
Copy letter to [Patrick Pearse] from Seumas MacManus, Plainfield, New Jersey, re a meeting. MacManus also affirms that he has sent a letter to the ‘Gaelic American’ about Pearse’s ‘mission’.
Copy letter to Margaret Mary Pearse from Donadlo Stewart, Casillia 201, Bolivia, seeking information on the progress of the collection in aid of the fund for the purchase of St. Enda’s School.
Copy letter from Richard Mulcahy to the Most Rev. Michael Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe (1859-1955), regarding apparent misrepresentations re the revolutionary period in a book by the historian, P. S. O’Hegarty (1879-1955).