A Dublin Fire Brigade tender near the Four Courts following the assault on the building at the start of the Civil War on 1 July 1922. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel garrison surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / the Four Courts, the republican fortress in Dublin, unconditionally surrendered to the Free State troops yesterday, and the garrison of about 150 are now in Mountjoy Prison / Photograph shows a fire engine at work’.
Draft article (probably written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap.) referring to the history of the Dublin Grand Opera Society, founded by Lieutenant Colonel William O’Kelly in 1941.
A permit from the Dublin Metropolitan Police allowing Edmond Donelan, Rose Dale, Vergemount, Clonskea, to pass through the streets of Dublin (2 May 1916). The permit is signature-stamped by Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone (1863-1936) who served as chief commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) from 1915 to 1923. The page also has a used Dublin tramway ticket dated 22 April 1916.
Extracts from the 'Dublin Review' periodical relating to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC and the temperance movement in Ireland. The extracts date from 1840 and include reviews of the 'First Annual Report of the Irish Temperance Union (25 Feb. 1840) and the 'Speech of John Hackney Esq. on Temperance delivered on Dec. 29th, 1837, at the Rotunda' (Dublin 1840). The notebook also contains extracts from the 'Limerick Chronicle', 17-20 Aug. 1842 referring to a speech by Fr. Mathew at Ennistymon in County Clare. The extracts were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap.
