A flier for the Fr. Michael O’Hickey Testimonial following his dismissal as Professor of Irish in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare. The testimonial reads ‘Dr. O’Hickey has for many years taken a leading part in the promotion of the national Language Movement, which, in the belief of men of a parties, has inspired Ireland with a new life and a new power. It is now some years since the plain-spoken and telling words of his published addresses on Irish Education laid the foundation of a great reform in the then almost hopelessly Anglicised school systems of Ireland’. The testimonial includes a lengthy list of subscribers who have contributed to the fund.
Clippings of photographs relating to the life of Dom Columba Marmion OSB taken from an uncited publication. The file includes images of Marimon’s family in Dublin, ‘Joseph Marmion (Clonliffe, 1876)’, Marmion in Louvain in 1900, Maredsous Abbey, and Marmion with Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier.
Circular reporting the resolutions passed at a meeting of the County Louth branch of the Property Defence Association held in Dundalk on 21 October 1881. The circular was issued by Townley Macartney-Filgate, honorary secretary.
A flier promoting the work of the Anti-Boycott League. The flier includes quotations offering endorsements of the work of the League and the need to ‘take a firm stand against the tyranny of the Land League’. A manuscript annotation indicates the flier was sent to John Ribton Garstin (1836-1917), Braganstown, County Louth.
A booklet containing an alphabetical listing of subscriptions to the Emergency Committee (sometimes referred to as the ‘Orange Emergency Committee’), a collective aid organisation established to assist Irish landowners.
A report of the operations of the Emergency Committee from 1 December 1881 to 25 January 1882. Reference is made to the placement of caretakers in charge of farms from which tenants have been evicted and to the assistance lent by the Committee in executing writs of possession on various properties.
Circular letter from John Henry de la Poer Beresford, 5th Marquis of Waterford (1844-1895) read at a meeting of the County Waterford branch of the Irish Landowners’ Convention.
