Affichage de 1884 résultats

Eighth reports of the Executive Committee of the Irish Landowners’ Convention to be submitted at the annual meeting on 26 January 1893.

A flier setting out the rules and constitution of the Irish Unionist Alliance (South Louth Division).

Flier from the Irish Unionist Alliance setting out the need for an ‘extensive petition’ in response to William Gladstone’s Government of Ireland (Second Home Rule) Bill.

Letter from Alexander Edward Miller regarding his candidacy in the forthcoming Trinity College by-election. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Thomas Ball on his appointment as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The contest was won by Edward Gibson.

Flier from Dodgson Hamilton Madden for the impending Trinity College (Dublin University) by-election. The flier reads ‘I have always been a firm supporter of the Conservative party, and I look upon its present position with pride. That party, with the patriotic aid of the Liberal Unionists, has succeeded in averting from the Empire disintegration and dishonour, and from Ireland a signal and crushing disaster’. Madden received 1,376 in the contest and was elected an MP.

Flier advertising plays to be performed by pupils of Scoil Éanna (St. Enda’s School), Cullenswood House, Oakley Road, on 5-7 February 1910. The plays to be performed were ‘The Destruction of the Hostel’ by Padraic Colum and ‘Iosagán’ by Patrick Pearse. Includes lists of performers in each of the plays and contextual notes on the plays.

An image of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. outside the main door to Jervis Street Hospital during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin.

A signed print of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). The card is signed ‘Constance de Markievicz, I.R.A.’ and is dated 4 March 1918. The postcard image is credited to the Lafayette Studio, Dublin.

Photographic prints of the noted Irish opera singer Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889-1958). The file includes the following images:

• The birth-place of Margaret Burke Sheridan in Castlebar, County Mayo.
• Burke Sheridan with Hilde Gueden (1917-1988), soprano, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
• Burke Sheridan with Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971) and her family.
• Burke Sheridan with Gladys Swarthout (1900-1969), opera singer, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1955.
• Burke Sheridan with Burton G. Tremaine, a noted art collector, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1952.
• Burke Sheridan with Vincent O’Brien.
The file also includes newspaper clippings ('Irish Press', 'Sunday Review') of tributes paid to Burke Sheridan following her death.

An image of the exterior of the Church of St. Francis and the adjoining Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny. The church is decorated to mark the tercentenary celebrations of the arrival of the Capuchins in Kilkenny in 1948.