Photographic prints compiled for an article by T.F. O’Sullivan titled ‘The Big House’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977). The file includes prints of the interior and exterior of Borris House, the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanaghs in County Carlow, and a depilated shopfront possibly in Borris. The prints are credited to T.F. O’Sullivan. The file also includes images of Glashganny Lock on the River Barrow.
A photographic print of a large crowd at a musical performance at the Band Hollow in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, in c.1945. In the early twentieth century, the Dublin United Tramways Company sponsored the performances of brass bands on the bandstand in the Hollow not far from the Zoo in the Phoenix Park.
A collection of printed pamphlets and information sheets relating to the Six Day War and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The file includes the following publications: • Sister Marie Therese, 'War in Jerusalem / An eye-witness account of the Israeli invasion, 5th-8th June 1967'. Published by the Irish Arab Society. • 'Edwin Montagu and the Balfour Declaration'. Published by the Arab League Office (London, [1967]). • Walid Khalidi, 'Jerusalem / The Arab Case'. (1967). • 'Palestine / An outline of the problem'. Published by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Committee. (c.1967). • John Carter, 'An eyewitness in Jerusalem / Spring 1969'. Published by The Jerusalem Committee (London, 1969). • Rabbi Elmer Berger, 'Israel’s threat to Judaism / In Palestine: Zionism v. Judaism, Christianity, Islam'. Published by the Irish Arab Society (1970). • The file includes a blank membership form for the Irish-Arab Society, 38 Grafton Street, Dublin 2.
A view of the original Abbey Theatre building in Dublin in about 1949. The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. In its early years, the theatre was closely associated with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival including Yeats, Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey.
A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) published in the ‘Waterford Star’ (30 April 1942). Reference is made in the article to work of the Capuchin friars during the temperance crusade, to Ring College in County Waterford, and to Canon Patrick Sheehan.
The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ public house near Athlone in County Westmeath in about 1930. Built in 1830, this bar was named after the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’, a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, written in 1773.