Flier from Anthony Traill to the electors of the University of Dublin (Trinity College). Trail affirms that he ‘shall the Church of Ireland from the misrepresentations of those who seem anxious to make further raids upon the property of the Representative Church Body, by careful financial management, has succeeded in accumulating’. He confirms that in politics he has ‘always been a Conservative’. The file includes a list of committee members supporting Trail’s candidacy.
A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Recent Irish History’. The volume is a ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting Volume’. The content is wide ranging and includes numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, some original photographs, fliers, ephemera, and pasted-in content relating primarily to the Irish Revolution and partition. The volume also includes many documents relating to the anti-Treaty interest during the Civil War. Many clippings of obituaries are also present in the volume. An alphabetical index of individuals (and some events) referred to in the documents is present in the opening pages of the volume. The volume is paginated. The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following: • William O’Brien • Bishop Edward O’Dwyer • Éamon de Valera • Thomas Ashe • Terence MacSwiney • Arthur Griffith • Liam Mellows • Roger Casement • Kilmainham Jail • Seán Treacy • Elizabeth O’Farrell • Mount St. Benedict, Gorey, County Wexford • Kevin Barry • Julia Grenan • Katharine O’Shea • President de Valera’s view on the Boundary Commission (1924) • Michael Collins • Archbishop Daniel Mannix • Erskine Childers • Cathal Brugha • Douglas Hyde • Senator David Robinson • Vere Foster • Alfred O’Rahilly • Patrick John Little • Arthur Clery • Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO • John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair. (His departure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1915). • Hugo Flinn • Fr. Peter Yorke • ‘Proposed terms of settlement’ (typescript draft, 7 May 1923) • ‘Behind stone walls’. Refers to the continued imprisonment of republicans by the Free State government during the Civil War. • Niall Mac Giolla Bhrighde (Neil McBride) • Voting paper for the ‘Masonic Orphan Boys’ School Election – November 1942’ • ‘Propaganda’ / an address delivered by the auditor Louis V. Nolan at the solicitors buildings, Four Courts, 27 October 1942 • ‘Leo O’Brien / His life in service in the movement for Ireland’s Independence’. For more information on Leo O’Brien see https://www.irishcatholic.com/fighting-for-irelands-freedom-drove-me-mad-claimed-convicted-murderer/ • T. J. Kiernan • ‘Memorandum of Ambulance work & efforts for peace’ by John P. Homan (d. 1944), Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. The document refers to his work with St. John’s Ambulance during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin in June-July 1922. Mention is made of his interactions with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and the friar’s efforts to secure a cessation of hostilities. • An original pamphlet titled ‘Who is the real foe of the Irish / (by Hugh O’Neill)’ [c.1917]. 11 pp.
A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘Irish history’. The content of the volume is varied and includes newspaper clippings, photographs, printed fliers, and original ephemera relating primarily to the Irish Revolution. The volume pages are not paginated. The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following: • Letters from Piaras Béaslaí and Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’). • Clippings relating to the 1916 Rising and War of Independence. • The funeral of Thomas Ashe. • Photographic print of the visit of King Edward VII to the Phoenix Park racecourse, Dublin (April 1904). • Michael Davitt. • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. • Erskine Childers. • Patrick Holohan. • Archbishop John D’Alton. • The Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. • Numerous original fliers, leaflets and handbills relating to the War of Independence and later the anti-Treaty interest during the Civil War. • A flier titled ‘Funeral Procession of the “Freeman’s Journal”’ (1924). • Numerous republican street ballad fliers and leaflets. • Publicity material and original printed ephemera relating to Thomas Ashe. • An original United Irish League national convention meeting ticket signed by Joseph Devlin (23 April 1912). • A flier for a patriotic concert to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Robert Emmet, held in the Rotunda Rooms in Dublin (4 March 1915). • Dublin by-election flier (1915). • Signed Constance Markievicz postcard print (1918). • The funeral of Hermann Görtz (May 1947). • Obituaries for Tomás S. Cuffe (1949). • Clippings towards the end of the volume relate to later commemorations (and obituary notices) for prominent Irish nationalists. • Photographs placed at the end of the volume show several actors in traditional Gaelic clothing for a theatrical performance (most likely a Saint Patrick pageant).
‘Kodak film wallet / MacSweeny’s Photographic Supply Store, Cork’. The file contains eight plates showing groups of Capuchins, including some images of friars at a Provincial Chapter in the Church Street Friary, Dublin. Includes images of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (1874-1938). Fr. Edwin was Provincial Minister from 1926-9 and from 1931-7.
Two plates showing portraits of Fr. Joseph Harkins OSFC (1853-1888). This Kilkenny-born friar traveled to India in about 1884 and took charge of a mission in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. He died in Meerut on 1 December 1888. The larger plate (10.5 cm x 8 cm) appears to a photographic print of a portrait painting. With an annotated cover.
Two plates showing images of the road from Rochestown to the local railway station. The image shows three Capuchin friars with a three-arch stone bridge, a mill and a chimney in the distant background. One of the friars is identifiable. The individual first on the right is Fr. Ignatius Collins OSFC. With an annotated cover.
A file containing three plates with images of the original acts of professions of two seventeenth century Irish Capuchin martyrs, Fr. Fiacre Tobin OSFC (c.1620-1656) and Fr. John Baptist Dowdall OSFC (c.1626-1710). The plates are labelled a-c. Fiacre Tobin’s profession is dated 2 July 1638. John Baptist Dowdall’s profession (at the Irish Capuchin friary in Charleville, France) is dated 5 October 1652.
Notebook compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC detailing the missions and retreats given by him and other Capuchin friars from c.1903-08. The opening page notes that he was ordained on 23 Feb. 1902. An index is extant at the start of the volume. Information is given in respect of the location of the retreat or mission, the date, and the number of confessions heard and sermons preached. Occasional reference is made the subject of sermons and lectures such as ‘charity’, ‘the mercy of God’, and the 'dangers of drink’. The file also includes a separate typescript listing of missions, retreats and special sermons given by Fr. Angelus from 1903-40.
Flier for a tea festival to mark the opening of the Franciscan Great Temperance Hall, Mary Street, [Cork]. It is noted that the ‘Very Rev. Theobald Mathew and other grater advocates of temperance will attend’.
Photocopies of Temperance Reports held in the State Paper Office (now the National Archives of Ireland). The reports are part of the Official Papers Collection (OP/1840/131/10). Police and magistrates in the southern counties of Ireland submitted detailed reports on the progress of the temperance crusade in their districts at the beginning of 1840 in reply to a circular (12 March 1840) from the Chief Inspector of the Constabulary in Dublin. These replies (the Temperance Reports) have survived in the original handwriting of the police officers and magistrates. The counties covered in the reports include Waterford, Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary, Wexford, Cork, Clare and Galway. The file also includes a copy of the ‘Rules of Saint Mary’s Temperance and Mortality Society established July 28th, 1839, in Limerick’. The photocopies were acquired by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. in March 1982. The file also includes notes (compiled by Fr. Nessan) taken from evidence found in the Temperance Reports particularly in respect of the locations visited by Fr. Mathew and the numbers pledged.
