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Draft article by Thomas A. Barry titled ‘The Back of Beyond / North-West Achill, an area of special scientific interest and beauty’.

A pamphlet relating to the trial and execution of Erskine Childers (1870-1922) who was convicted by a Free State military court on charges of illegally possessing a firearm and sentenced to death. While his appeal against the sentence was still pending, Childers was executed by firing squad at the Beggar’s Bush Barracks in Dublin on 24 Nov. 1922. The tract includes an elegy on Erskine Childers by Padraig de Brún. Published in London by Leslie Smith & Co., printers.

A reprint of an article titled ‘The Ardmore Ogam’ by Fr. Richard Henebry taken from the ‘Journal of the Ivernian Society’ (Aug. 1915).

Date: 1791-1797
Author: Francis Grose (c.1731-1791)
Publisher: London, Vol. 1: Printed for S. Hooper, MDCCXCI; Vol. II, Printed for M. Hooper & Wigstead, MDCCXCVII
Full title: 'The antiquities of Ireland'

A pamphlet referring to the redraft of the Treaty by Ėamon de Valera titled a ‘Proposed Treaty of Association between Ireland and the British Commonwealth’ or more commonly known as ‘Document No. 2’, presented to Dáil Eireann in January 1922. Published in Dublin by the Irish Nation Committee [1923]. Titled ‘No. 6’ in a series. Who abandoned the Republic? / By a Western Priest is ‘No. 3’ in this series (CA/IR/1/7/3/23).

Inscribed on bowl: ‘Adult Choirs’ Cup’. The base of the bowl is engraved: ‘Presented by Thomas Lennon Esq.’. The bowl is also engraved with a list of winning choir groups from 1975-1997.

Draft article by Dermot Keogh titled ‘The “New Unionism” and Ireland / Dublin Coal Porters’ Strikes, 1890: War of Attrition’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975).

Date: 1552
Author: Terence (195/185-159 BC), [var. Publius Terentius Afer]
Publisher: Parisiis, Apud Ioannem de Roigny
Full title: 'P. Terenti Afri poetae lepidissimi, Comœdiæ: Andria, Evnvchvs, Heavtontimorvmenos, Adelphi, Hecyra, Phormio: ex emendatissimis ac fide dignissimis codicibus summa diligentia castigatæ, versibus in suas dimensiones restitutis, ac variis lectionibus in margine appositis ...: omnium quæ in his interpretum commentariis explicantur, index locupletissimus'.
Physical description: Text surrounded by commentary. The commentators are Philipp Melanchthon, Desiderius Erasmus, Antonius Goveanus, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Vittore Fausto, Pietro Bembo, Aelius Donatus, Giovanni Calfurnio, Adriaan van Baerland, Bartholomaeus Latonius, Pietro Marso, Johann Rivius, Etienne Dolet, Henricus Glareanus, Joannes Theodoricus Bellovacensis and Jodocus Willich; numerous small woodcuts, some repeated, within text (R. Brun, 'Le Livre illustré en France au XVIe siècle', p. 310).

An account by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. of the imprisonment and death of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork. Fr. Dominic wrote: ‘His sufferings, no pen could write. Try and conceive the pain you suffer in your shoulders and back and in your knees, the stiff, numbing pain in the calves of your legs, the agony in your heels, instep and ankles, even if you remain for six hours outstretched on your back. What a relief to bend your knees and draw them up toward your body. But even that little relief our heroic sufferer could not have, for the flesh had wasted from his knee’.