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A view of the original Abbey Theatre building in Dublin in about 1949. The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. In its early years, the theatre was closely associated with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival including Yeats, Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey.

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) published in the ‘Waterford Star’ (30 April 1942). Reference is made in the article to work of the Capuchin friars during the temperance crusade, to Ring College in County Waterford, and to Canon Patrick Sheehan.

The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ public house near Athlone in County Westmeath in about 1930. Built in 1830, this bar was named after the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’, a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, written in 1773.

A clipping of an article on the ‘Lusitania’ memorial sculpture by Jerome Connor in Cobh, County Cork. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (15 February 1953).

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943) published in the ‘Galway Observer’ (4 September 1943).

The ‘Forty Steps’ otherwise known as Cromwell’s Quarters just off James’s Street in Dublin.

A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1945-6) published in the ‘Connaught Tribune’ (9 February 1946).

An image of a thatched cottage near Rosslare in County Wexford.