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Memoriam card for Fr. Dominic O’Connor. The card notes his role as chaplain to the Lord Mayors of Cork, Tomás Mac Curtain, and Terence MacSwiney. It also states that he died ‘in exile for the Republic of Ireland at Bend, Oregon, USA, 17th October 1935’.

Memoriam card for Canon Patrick Sheehan ‘who died on the 5th October 1913 / Rosary Sunday / aged 61 years’.

An account by Sister M. Conception, a Presentation nun, relating to the memorial statue of Canon Patrick Sheehan which was unveiled in the church in Doneraile, County Cork, on 18 October 1925.

‘Memorandum of Ambulance work & efforts for peace’ by J.P. Homan, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. The memorandum refers to his work with St. John’s Ambulance during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin in June and July 1922. Specific mention is made of Homan’s interactions with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and the friar’s efforts to secure a cessation of the fighting. Includes a short clipping of an obituary for J.P. Homan (‘Irish Independent’, 6 Aug. 1944). (Volume pages 79-87).

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 …’.

A membership certificate for the ‘Wolfe Tone and Ninety Eight Memorial Association’. The document presents four scenes broadly connected with the 1798 rebellion with titles: ‘Cave Hill Compact, June 11th, 1795; Dublin, 23rd July, 1803; French Landing at Killala, August 22nd 1798; Foundation stone, National Memorial, S. Green Dublin, laid August 15th 1898’.

A photographic print of Cork Corporation who voted for the election of Tomás MacCurtain as Lord Major of Cork on 31 January 1920. The photograph shows the scene in the council chamber of Cork City Hall on the day Mac Curtain was elected Lord Mayor.

A view of Mellows Bridge over the River Liffey joining Queen Street and Arran Quay in Dublin.

An image of the exterior of Meentogues National School in County Kerry in about 1940.