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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.

A clipping of an appreciation of Margaret Kennedy (1892-1953) by R.M. Fox published in ‘The Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner’ (13 June 1953). Kennedy was a member of Cumann na mBan who served in Marrowbone Lane during the Rising. She was subsequently imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail. She later worked with the Irish National Aid Association and became a captain in Cumann na mBan (1920), and later a Commandant.

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.

The entrance to the Mardyke, an extensive area of parkland in Cork city.

An image of Mardyke Cottage, a detached three-bay two storey residence built in about 1810. The cottage is situated on Mardyke Walk in Cork city.

A printed copy of Thomas MacDonagh’s poem ‘Marching Song of the Irish Volunteers’.

A print of a seventeenth-century map of Charleville (now Charleville-Mézières) in France. Charleville was the location where the exiled Irish Capuchins established their first residence in 1615. A manuscript annotation underneath the print in the volume reads ‘Charleville. The home of the Irish Capuchins from 1615 to 1686’. The map was originally published in Matthaeus Merian and Martin Zeiler, ‘Topographia Galliae’ (Frankfort [c.1655-61]).

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’.