Facsimile prints and drawings compiled for an article by Arthur H. Mitchell titled ‘Some of the Irish with Washington’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 70-88.The documents were sourced from a facsimile pack published by the Academy Press on Irish connections with the American Revolutionary War. The file includes a copy drawing of a group portrait by Lawrence O’Toole illustrating Irish connections with George Washington and the American Declaration of Independence.
Photographic prints showing various people and scenes in Slovakia in 1949. The prints are annotated on the reverse and include:
• ‘The laughing faces of young Slovakia’. • Crosses marking ‘victims of the mountains in Slovakia’. • ‘Holy Mass on a Sunday in Slovakia, Summer 1949’. • ‘A Slovakian Bride’.
A view of the Hennessy's Road and Slievekeale areas of Waterford city. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Rus in Urba / Ballybricken, Waterford'.
A view of the landscape around Slemish, a small mountain near Ballymena in County Antrim in about 1935. According to tradition, Slemish (or Slieve Mish as it was historically called), is the first known Irish home of Saint Patrick.
An image of Slane Castle and its surrounding parkland in County Meath. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Slane Castle and the River Boyne / County Meath'.
A view of the ruins of the monastic settlement on Skellig Michael (also known as Great Skellig) off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print notes that the image shows ‘St. Michael’s Oratory and Abbot’s Cross on the Great Skellig’.
