Author: D.T. Barry
Publisher: Cork: Shandon Printing Works, 37 South Mall
Language: English
Full title: 'Alcohol: its work / a lecture delivered before St. Finbarr’s Total Abstinence Society by D.T. Barry, MD, FRCS (Eng.), DPH, Professor of Physiology, Queen’s College, Cork'.
Manuscript annotation on front cover reads: ‘Fr. Alphonsus [Carroll] OSFC’.
A postcard print of the author Alexander Irvine. The caption reads ‘Alexander Irvine / (Author of “My Lady of the Chimney Corner.”) / Portrait by J. Langtry-Lynas / Presented by Mrs. Beamish’.
Francis Joseph Bigger, ‘Alexander Mitchell / The famous blind engineer of Belfast’ ([Belfast: 1907]). The text is a reprint of a paper before the Natural History and Philosophical Society in Belfast. A manuscript dedication on the front cover reads ‘To Rose Carruthers from F.J.B. / May 1907’.
An image of Alderman Alfie Byrne (1882-1956), Lord Mayor of Dublin, with Waterford pilgrims at the Lourdes Grotto at the Church of Mary Immaculate on Tyrconnell Road in Inchicore in Dublin.
A portrait photograph of Alfie Byrne (1882-1956), Lord Mayor of Dublin.
A photographic print Alfred White, a member of Na Fianna Éireann.
A bound volume with a printed titled on the front cover which reads ‘newspaper cuttings’. The volume contains reviews of Alice Curtayne’s ‘St. Anthony of Padua’ published by The Father Mathew Record Office as ‘Capuchin Monographs No. 1’ in 1931. Several letters and ephemera referring to the publication are also pasted into the volume. Includes reviews published in the ‘Irish Independent’, ‘Cork Examiner’, ‘Irish Catholic’, ‘The Cross’, ‘The Kerry Champion’, ‘Sunday Independent’, ‘Irish Press’, and ‘Kilkenny People’.
A captioned image which reads (from left) Captain John McEnery and his wife Alice McEnery (Sir John Lavery’s stepdaughter), and Father Joseph Leonard CM at the funeral of the painter Sir John Lavery in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin in January 1941. The print is credited to Charles C. Fennell.
A clipping of article titled ‘Honouring a gallant Ulsterwoman’ paying tribute to the literary career of Alice Milligan. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (26 October 1942).
An image of the Kerry and Dublin teams parading before the All Ireland Football Final at Croke Park, Dublin, on 25 September 1955.