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A clipping of a positive review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1940) published in the ‘Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner’ (16 December 1939).

A clipping of a positive review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1934) published in ‘The Irish World’ (27 January 1934). The review was written by Maire Hastings.

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1941) published in the ‘Irish World’ (1 March 1941).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1936) published in the ‘Kilkenny People’ (28 December 1935).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1937) published in the ‘Lourdes Messenger’ (March 1937).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1940) published in the ‘Lourdes Messenger’ (December 1940).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1941) published in the ‘Lourdes Messenger’ (January 1940).

Manuscript transcript of song ‘Republicans are We’ to the air of ‘The Soldiers’ Song’. The first verse reads:
‘When bravely we’d fought our land to free
Our Tricolour flying o’ar us,
The ancient foe for peace did seek,
From I.R.A. victorious
Our envoys went to London town
And there, let our Republic down;
But still, till Freedom battle’s won
Republicans are We’.

An image of two inhabitants of the Aran Islands in about 1940. The title of the print is ‘seanchas’, an old Irish word referring to the act of storytelling and conveying an ancient tale handed down by oral tradition. A ‘seanchaí’ was a storyteller or a custodian of this tradition.

The song uses the refrain ‘Up Plunkett and McGuinness! For I want my four green fields'. Joseph McGuinness contested the 1917 South Longford by-election. At that time, he was prison in Lewes, Sussex, for his part in the 1916 Rising.