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A clipping of a portrait image of Peadar O’Donnell.

A circular letter from Seán O’Faoláin to Máirín Ryan inviting her to join the Society of the Friends of the Irish Academy of Letters.

Letter from Brian Ó hUigínn (Brian O’Higgins), publisher, Stormanstown, Glasnevin, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to ‘The Father Mathew Record’ periodical.

Letter from Alice Cutayne to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the cheque for £20. She also suggests that her lecturing career may be over but adding her ‘writing should not cease on account of marriage’.

A letter from Patrick Kavanagh, 122 Morehampton Road, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. apologizing for his previous short letter. He adds ‘You will hear from me again – maybe from New York – and I will then be in a position to tell you all, at the moment I am just too worried’.

A letter from Francis MacManus to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to his note on Alice Curtayne’s lecture. He also asks Fr. Senan not to pay him before publication as that ‘big heart of your’s behind the brown robe may lead you to buying a pig in a poke’.

A clipping of a satirical article reporting on a performance of a play by Myles na gCopaleen (Brian O’Nolan / pen-name Flann O’Brien) in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (26 January 1943).

A photographic print of a British military inspection in the Royal Barracks (now Collins Barracks) in Dublin. The inspecting officer is General Sir John Maxwell (1859-1929).

A photograph of Muriel MacSwiney and Terence MacSwiney’s sisters Mary and Annie. The original caption is titled ‘The widow of Terence MacSwiney’ and refers to his death ‘after fasting for 73 days in Brixton Prison’. It also affirms that Muriel MacSwiney ‘collapsed after the long strain and was not with him when he passed out’. The image is credited to World Wide Photos.

A photograph of Tomás MacCurtain, Lord Mayor, demonstrating a Fordson tractor (manufactured locally by the American Ford Motor Company) in Cork in 1920.