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Letter from Liam Mellows, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, to his mother. Written at 5 a.m., shortly before his execution. It reads: ‘The time is short and much I would like to say must go unsaid. But you will understand in such moments heart speaks to heart. At 3.30 this morning we (Dick Barrett, Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey and I) were informed that we were to be “executed as a reprisal”. … I go to join Tone and Emmett, the Fenians, Tom Clarke, Connolly, Pearse, Kevin Barry and Childers. My last thoughts will be on God, and Ireland, and you. …. I had hopes that some day I might rest in some quiet place – beside Grandfather and Grandmother in Castletown (Co. Wexford), not amidst the wordly pomps [sic] of Glasnevin but if it is to be the prison clay, it is all the sweeter for many of our best lie here …’.

A carte-de-visite showing a view of the Marian shrine at the Church of St. John the Baptist in Knock in County Mayo. The print was produced by James McFarland, 79 Grafton Street, Dublin.

Fr. Richard Henebry (front row, seated, second from left) at Coláiste na Mumhan in Béal Átha an Ghaorthaidh (Ballingeary). Fr. Albert Bibby OSFC is seated in the front row (first on the right).

Letter to Patrick Pearse from E.K. Chambers, Board of Education, Whitehall, London, regarding the possibility of taking Welsh as an additional subject in a public elementary school.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from Tomás de Róiste, Conrad na Gaelige, Tipperary. Refers to an enclosure for £1 for ‘expenses incurred by your recent visit to Tipperary’. Annotation on the reverse of the letter in hand of Pearse reads ‘[Seosamh mac Cathmhaoil], possibly Joseph Campbell, Loretto Cottage, Castlereagh Road, Belfast’.

Letter from John D. Crimmins, Emmet Arcade, 624 Madison Avenue, to Patrick Pearse, New York, regarding a contribution to the St. Enda’s School fund.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from A. Brendan Ford, editor, ‘New York Freeman’s Journal and Catholic Register’, 13 Barclay Street, New York. Ford suggests that Pearse has ‘one of the highest gifts from the Gods – the trick of swaying hearts with your words’. The letter appears be incomplete.

Letter to Patrick Pearse, Turlough, Rosmuck, County Galway, from Thomas F. O’Connell, solicitor, 34 Kildare Street, Dublin. The letter refers to arrears of rent due on the Hermitage in Rathfarnham. It reads ‘Whatever arrangement may in the future be considered as to leaving you in possession for the present in [the] Hermitage as tenant at a lower rent, this must not be allowed to interfere with your obligation to pay the rent for the past half year’.

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 poster advertising an ‘Aeridheacht’ (or open day) at St. Enda’s School in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Patrick Pearse regularly organised an ‘Aeridheacht’ on the grounds of the school to support Scoil Éanna. These events were also used to promote the Irish language, music, sports, and customs.