An image of Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde) standing outside Áras an Uachtaráin in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, his official residence as President of Ireland.
A photographic print of a National Army (Irish Free State) soldier conversing with a British Army soldier. The photograph was most likely taken during the handover of a military installation to the Provisional Government in 1922.
A letter from Ernest Blythe (Earnán de Blaghd), 50 Kenilworth Square, Rathgar, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Blythe confirms that will happily contribute a commentary 'on the position in Northern Ireland' in 'The Capuchin Annual'.
A letter from Cahir Healy, 44 Belmore Street, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. agreeing to provide a commentary on the article on the ‘partitioned six counties’. Healy also commends the 1942 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’, suggesting that ‘newspaper men at Brixton [prison] … were surprised at its excellence in these stringent days’.
A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., declining to write anything on 'this sad Irish question and the cruelties that go with it’.
A letter from Sir Shane Leslie, 107 Sloane Street, London, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., affirming that he has ‘avoided writing anything about Ireland’s problems during “the Emergency”’.