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List of priests (with biographical information) serving the parishes of Doneraile and Shanballymore in County Cork from 1688 to 1910. Canon Sheehan’s entry reads ‘Born in New-Street, Mallow, March 17th, 1852. Educated at St. Colman’s and Maynooth. Ordained in Cork Cathedral in April 1875; Exeter 1875-1877; Mallow, 1877-1881; Queenstown, 1881-1889; Mallow, 1889-1895. Appointed Parish Priest of Doneraile in July 1895’.

Statement titled 'Partition' issued by the Pro-Treaty Government Publicity Department suggesting that Éamon de Valera 'was aware of the "Ulster" clauses of the Treaty long before the Treaty was signed, and that he made no protest; that he had assured Mr. Lloyd George that force would not be used against "Ulster" in order to bring the six counties into a United Ireland ...'.

Pass signed by Major J.W. Morel, Assistant Provost Marshal, Dublin, permitting Fr. Columbus Murphy OFM Cap. ‘to travel in the streets of Dublin on duty and to visit prisoners where allowed’. Stamped and dated. With un-stamped permit allowing Fr. Columbus ‘to travel anywhere in the City and visit prisoners in Richmond [Barracks]’. Indecipherable signature at bottom of pass.

Passport of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. issued by the British Foreign Office. Fr. Dominic’s age is given as 36, his profession as a Roman Catholic Clergyman and is defined as a ‘British-born subject’. With half-length portrait photograph pasted into document. The ink stamps on the passport indicate that Fr. Dominic travelled through France and Belgium in 1919.

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.

Photographic print of a group of two men and three women. Two of the women may be the sisters Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse.

The newssheet is titled ‘No. 1’, and urges the ‘men of the Free State Army to read what your English Allies think of you’.

Personal cheque from William Pearse’s personal bank account with the Terenure branch of the Royal Bank of Ireland Limited, for the payment of £2 to Percy C. Webb. The cheque is signed by Pearse.

List of approximately 100 names with various annotations. Listed individuals include Arthur Griffith, Sean Connolly, ‘Miss [Grace] Gifford’, Garret Holohan, John O’Mahony and ‘[de] Valera’. Annotations such as ‘K’ and ‘R’, presumably standing for Richmond and Kilmainham, appear beside some of the individuals listed.

A photographic print of the wedding of Terence MacSwiney and Muriel Murphy in June 1917. In February 1917 MacSwiney was deported from Ireland and interned in Shrewsbury and Bromyard internment camps until his release in June 1917. It was during his exile in Bromyard that he married Muriel Murphy, a member of a wealthy brewing family in Cork. Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. an Irish Capuchin friar (2nd row, third from the right), was the celebrant at the wedding.