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An Italian newspaper containing an article by Donal McHales, General Consular and Agent of the Irish Republic, concerning the ‘atrocities’ committed by Belfast Protestants upon Irish Catholics and nationalists. (p. 2).

A satirical republican flier on the demise of the pro-Treaty 'Freeman's Journal' newspaper. The flier promotes a 'funeral procession' for the paper and notes that it ceased publication 'from an acute attack of Clerical Intimidation, Softening of the Back-bone, and other painful disorders'. Reference is made to the former proprietors of the newspaper, Francis Higgins (c.1745–1802), probably better known as the 'Sham Squire', and Sir John Gray (1815-1875).

A framed photograph of John McCormack (1884-1945), the Irish tenor, dedicated to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. It is signed by his wife, Lily McCormack, and dated 1946.

A printed appeal ‘to the Irish Race’ for funds to keep St. Enda’s School at the Hermitage, Rathfarnham in Dublin. Published by Comhartha-Chuimhne Phadraic agus Liam Mhic Phiarais. The first page has a photograph of Patrick Pearse.

Flier and subscription card for the St. Enda’s School purchase fund fundraising ‘to return the School to The Hermitage, Rathfarnham’. At foot of second page ‘Signed by F. Murphy and E. Bulfin, Hon. Secs.; Joseph MacDonagh and Rev. Eugene Nevin, C.P. Hon. Treas’. At top right side: ‘St. Enda’s College, Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin’. The text is mainly in English with a small portion in Irish. Published in Dublin by The Gaelic Press. Twenty signatures are extant on the subscription portion of the item.

Letter to James Pearse from George Standring, printer and publisher 7 & 9 Finsbury Street, London. The letter refers to disappointing sales for a publication and his advertising for the same in the ‘Freethinker’ and ‘National Reformer’ magazines.

A photograph of Robert Monteith (front row, fifth from the right) with a group probably in Killarney, County Kerry. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘Credit to Louise MacMongle, Killarney’.

Photographic print of Sir John Lavery’s painting titled ‘High Treason: The Appeal of Roger Casement, The Court of Criminal Appeal, 17 and 18 July 1916’. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print credits the photograph to T.F. Geoghegan, 2 Essex Quay, Dublin.

Letter from William Woodlock, Vickery’s Hotel, Bantry, County Cork. The letter provides detail of his trip to Counties Cork and Kerry. In relation to Bantry, Woodlock wrote ‘Nearly all the names over the shops are English: in fact, it is hard to think one is in Ireland at all, with Kingstons, and Coopers, and Taylors, and Murrays, and Robinsons. The Papists are making a footing, for I saw the name of Moriarty over one of the best shops in the place’.

Letter from John Patrick Lynch, Belfield, Stillorgan Road, Booterstown, Dublin, apologizing for not being able to attend Mrs Woodlock’s funeral in Glasnevin owing to the onset of a bad cold.