Memorial to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of Dublin from the Burgesses of Inns Quay and Arran Quay referring to the ‘great want of proper dwelling house accommodation’ suitable for the ‘upwards of 180 persons’ engaged in business at the new food market. The memorial requests that the Corporation widen Mary’s Lane and erect proper artisans’ houses. A list of subscribers (and their addresses) is appended to the memorial. The list includes John Jameson, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and many local vegetable and fruit sellers.
Memoriam card for Fr. Dominic O’Connor. The card notes his role as chaplain to the Lord Mayors of Cork, Tomás Mac Curtain, and Terence MacSwiney. It also states that he died ‘in exile for the Republic of Ireland at Bend, Oregon, USA, 17th October 1935’.
Menu card for a Unionist Banquet held in The Rotunda, Dublin, on 26 January 1893. The event was held to honour several Unionists MPs. The politicians were Horace Plunkett (1854-1932), the Irish Unionist Alliance MP for South Dublin from 1892 to 1900. Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster (1855-1909), the Liberal Unionist MP for West Belfast from 1892 to 1906. Richard Martin Dane (1852-1903), MP for North Fermanagh from 1892 to 1898. William Kenny QC (1846-1921), MP for St. Stephen’s Green (Dublin) from 1892 to 1898, and John Ross QC (1853-1935), MP for Londonderry city from 1892 to 1895.
An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Merciless tigers in their dealings with unarmed Republican prisoners. Spineless worms in their dealings with English ministers. That's what O'Higgins and Mulcahy are'.
A postcard print of the Mercy Convent in Ardee, County Louth. Printed caption on image side reads 'The Convent of Mercy, Ardee'. A manuscript note on the reverse (addressed to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin) reads '... At present I have 50 books of tickets on hand for the Canon for Ballapousta draw, but will not forget you when this is over. / Sr. M. K.'. Postmark date reads 25 September 1931.
Fused fragments of metal and assorted bullet cartridges reputedly taken from the destroyed shell of the General Post Office in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising.
Author: Rev. P. Coffey Publisher: Dublin and Waterford: M.H. Gill & Son, Ltd. Language: English Full title: 'Methods and organisation of temperance work / a lecture read at a meeting of the Maynooth Union, June 1907 / by Rev. P. Coffey / with a catalogue of temperance publications for the use of priests and others engaged in promoting temperance'. An address by Rev. Francis Stokes titled 'The Pioneer Apostolate' (4 pp) is inserted into text.
