An image of Éamon de Valera inspecting Irish military personnel on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the 1916 Rising and was held on 13 April 1941.
A photographic print of soldiers parading along College Green in Dublin on St Patrick's Day in 1939. Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), President of Ireland, is taking the salute on the right of the image.
An image of a military ceremony at Arbour Hill in Dublin. An annotation on the reverse of the print refers to the event as a ‘ceremony’. The soldiers have their rifles in the reverse arms position, so the event is most likely a funeral procession.
A clipping of an image of accident involving National Army troops in Clontarf in Dublin. The original caption notes that a military car carrying troops overturned resulting in serious injuries to nine soldiers. One of the individuals, Private Peter O’Toole, later died from his injuries. The clipping is taken from the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (15 June 1923).
A copy of ‘Militärgeographische Angaben über Irland / West - und Nordküste (von Mizen Head bis Malin Head) / Text- und Bildheft mit Kartenanlagen’ (Berlin: Generalstab des Heeres, 1941).
A biographical note for the poet Michael Walsh.
A clipping of a review by Michael Tierney of the second issue of ‘Bonaventura’. The review was published in ‘The Leader’ (18 September 1937).
A bound volume containing clippings of articles chronicling the 1916 Rising by Michael J. Lennon (1891-1966). The articles were published in serial form in the ‘Irish Times’ from 1948-9. The articles appeared under the titles ‘Easter Week Diary I-VI’ (29 March-3 April 1948), and ‘The Easter Rising from the Inside I-VI’ (18-23 April 1949).
A clipping of a letter from William P. Fennell criticising the intolerance of the anti-Semitic remarks made by Michael Donnellan, the deputy leader of the Clann na Talmhan party. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (19 June 1947).
A biographical note on Michael de la Bédoyère, editor of ‘The Catholic Herald’.