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Memorandum of agreement between Patrick Pearse, St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin, and Deborah Alexander Wright, 11 Brighton Road, Terenure, Dublin, re the letting by the former of a portion of the garden at Cullenswood House, Oakley Road, Rathmines, Dublin. The rent payable is £4 2s 6d per quarter. The memorandum appears to be in Pearse’s hand and is signed by him.

Memorandum and Articles of Association of Scoil Éanna. The booklet contains manuscript additions of names, addresses and descriptions of subscribers including ‘Patrick H. Pearse, St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, barrister-at-law, William Pearse, St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, sculptor’, and ‘Thomas MacDonagh, 32 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin, tutor’. Two sets of signatures with one noting the number of shares taken by each subscriber. The signatures are dated 2 January 1912. The objective of the memorandum is ‘to acquire and take over the Colleges, known as Scoil Éanna and Scoil Ide, now carried on at Rathfarnham, in the County of Dublin, and at Cullenswood Avenue, County of Dublin, with the goodwill of Mr. P.H. Pearse therein …’.

Photographic print (on card) of Margaret Pearse, her daughter Margaret Mary Pearse, and other individuals on the steps of St. Enda’s School in Rathfarnham, Dublin.

Portrait photograph of Senator Margaret Mary Pearse. The print is credited to Adolf Morath, 88 Church Street, Liverpool.

Notes in both English and Irish probably written by Patrick Pearse. Includes a sketch, possibly of the medieval Christian monastery on St. Macdara’s Island off the coast of County Galway. Also includes references to St. Enda, a sixth-century saint who founded a Christian monastic settlement on Inis Mór, and Mochuda of Lismore who ‘did fishing’.