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Note from Pádraig Ó Máille possibly to Patrick Pearse re the formation of a Gaelic League branch in Moycullen, County Galway.

Note (possibly by Patrick Pearse or William Pearse) on St. Enda’s School-headed paper. The note refers to the need to obtain the ‘creditors’ money’.

Some notes about education in the hand of Patrick Pearse. The notes are undated but were possibly prepared a talk on the subject. The notes conclude with Pearse's transcription of a widely-known poem on public schooling which reads:
‘Ram it in, cram it in
Children’s heads are hollow.
Jam it in, slam it in,
Still there’s more to follow.
Pack it in, smack it in,
What are children made for?
Push it in, crush it in,
What are teachers paid for?’

List of priests (with biographical information) serving the parishes of Doneraile and Shanballymore in County Cork from 1688 to 1910. Canon Sheehan’s entry reads ‘Born in New-Street, Mallow, March 17th, 1852. Educated at St. Colman’s and Maynooth. Ordained in Cork Cathedral in April 1875; Exeter 1875-1877; Mallow, 1877-1881; Queenstown, 1881-1889; Mallow, 1889-1895. Appointed Parish Priest of Doneraile in July 1895’.

A printed appeal ‘to the Irish Race’ for funds to keep St. Enda’s School at the Hermitage, Rathfarnham in Dublin. Published by Comhartha-Chuimhne Phadraic agus Liam Mhic Phiarais. The first page has a photograph of Patrick Pearse.

Photographic print of a group of two men and three women. Two of the women may be the sisters Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse.

Personal cheque from William Pearse’s personal bank account with the Terenure branch of the Royal Bank of Ireland Limited, for the payment of £2 to Percy C. Webb. The cheque is signed by Pearse.

Studio portrait photograph of Margaret Pearse. Includes original print on card and possibly a later enlargement of the same image.

Postcard to Margaret Mary Pearse, 39 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin. The correspondent signature reads ‘May’. The postcard shows a view of Menlough Castle, County Galway.

Postcard to Patrick Pearse from an individual in Ballymacahill Inver, County Donegal, seeking a copy of the prospectus for St. Enda’s School and ‘any pamphlets from your pen’. The signature is indecipherable.