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An image of Henebry’s grocery shop in Portlaw, County Waterford. The shop was run by the siblings of Fr. Richard Henebry. The shop front signage spells the family name in Irish as ‘de Henebre’.

A transcript of ‘An elegy to the memory of my much beloved and lamented friend Mr William Woodlock (born 1741; died 1825) of the town of Roscrea’. The second page of the transcript has family history notes by William Woodlock (1832-1890), including a partial family tree which indicates that William Woodlock (1741-1825) was his great-grandfather. An additional entry notes that William Paul Woodlock (c.1780-1834) left Roscrea in 1798.

Letter from Sir Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880), 4 Merrion Square West, Dublin, to ‘Fanny’ (possibly Frances Woodlock).

Letter from Francis William Doyle Jones, sculptor, 2 Wentworth Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea, London, to a Mr. Gallagher, returning the books and photographs which he had sent him. Doyle Jones completed a memorial statue of Canon Sheehan in Doneraile in 1925.

Two photographic prints of a 'modelled bust of Canon Sheehan' by Joseph Higgins.

Letter from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), An Cumann Gaelach, University College Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.

A photographic print of Aodh de Blacam. A manuscript note attached reads 'Please substitute enclosed snapshot in any future hue-and-cry for Aodh de Blacam as it is 25 years later and tactfully conceals absence of thatch'.

A clipping of an article by Seán Nolan titled ‘In Memory of Frank Ryan’ published in the ‘Irish Workers’ Weekly’ in April 1945.

An image of individuals on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin. The photograph was most likely taken by Arthur Fields, the well-known Dublin street photographer.

A photographic postcard print captioned ‘Learning Irish Dancing at Ring College’ (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. Coláiste na Rinne was established in 1905 and officially recognised as an Irish language summer school in 1907. The principal founders of the college were Pádraig Ó Cadhla (1875-1948), an organiser for Conradh na Gaeilge in the locality, and Richard Henebry (1863-1916), also known as Risteard de Hindeberg, a Waterford-born priest, Irish language scholar and traditional music collector.