A manuscript text titled ‘The significance of Fr. Peter O’Leary’. The text reads ‘He [Ó Laoghaire] visualized an Ireland without a city. The city pained him, and he misjudged it – reading “Sgothbhualadh” you sense that’. The article is likely incomplete.
Draft article by Tadhg Gavin titled ‘The Soldier Poet’. The article refers to the life of Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918). An article by Tadhg Gavin on Kilmer appeared in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977).
A flier noting the establishment of a representative body in London to assist the work of the Emergency Committee in Dublin. The document notes that ‘in many parts of Ireland, owing to the state of terrorism which exists, persons who endeavoured to assert their legal rights cannot procure, except from great distance, the commonest necessaries of life, and are obliged to perform for themselves and families the most menial offices’. The flier expounds on the work of the Emergency Committee in assisting landowners and asks for financial assistance to aid their work.
Photocopies of extracts from ‘The memoirs of George Lennon, Officer Commanding West Waterford IRA Flying Column’ referring to the activities of the IRA in the county during the War of Independence.
Draft of an article by R.M. McEvatt titled ‘Thomas Martin and the foundation of Sinn Féin’. An article by McEvatt titled ‘Arthur Griffith and his early Sinn Féin policies’ was published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1970).
A single ticket of James Joseph O’Kelly for a journey from Le Havre to Dublin (via Southampton and London). 20 February 1871. With a cover addressed to ‘Monsieur O’Kelly, Hotel de Londres, Le Havre, France’. The one-page account note is endorsed ‘7205’.
