A manuscript letter and report titled ‘Lectures on Consumption and Fevers in South Connemara’. (c.1908). Reference is made in the letter to ‘Mr [Patrick] Pearse, editor of An Claidheamh Soluis’, and to various public lectures on health-related matters in the Connemara district. The item appears to be incomplete, and the author of the report is not given.
A framed photograph of John McCormack (1884-1945), the Irish tenor, dedicated to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. It is signed by his wife, Lily McCormack, and dated 1946.
Draft biography of the architect, James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) with a list of his principal works (including the Capuchin Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin). References are made to his Royal Hibernian Academy exhibitions, to his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Catholic University of Ireland, and to controversies over the restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin and the commission to build St. Colman’s Cathedral in Queenstown (Cobh). The file includes a newspaper clipping referring to the history of the Capuchins on Church Street. The clipping includes a photographic print of the old Capuchin Chapel on the street which was built in 1796 and was replaced by St. Mary of the Angels in 1864.
Manuscript list of names in Irish (possibly compiled by Patrick Pearse). The list includes Con Colbert, Brian O’Higgins, The O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille), and Patrick Pearse.