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.
An image of Michael Collins at St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin, addressing a meeting to promote the National Loan in 1920. St. Enda’s (Scoil Éanna) was a secondary school established by Pádraig Pearse in 1908.
Michael Collins (standing, second person to the left in the back row) and Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (seated, first on the left in the second row) at the wedding of Eliza Clancy and Michael O’Brien, 16 Airfield Road, Dublin on 22 November 1920.
A clipping referring to a public demonstration in Castlebar, County Mayo, on 2 April 1922. The event included speeches by Michael Collins, Seán McKeon (Seán Mac Eoin), and Alexander McCabe (Alasdair Mac Caba). The article is taken from the 'Irish Independent' (30 March 1922).
Drafts compiled by William J. Stapleton for an article titled ‘Michael Collins’ Squad’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969), pp 368-77. The file also includes draft articles by Stapleton relating to the Jacob’s Factory garrison in the 1916 Rising and the capture of a British armoured car during the War of Independence.
A photographic print of Michael Collins leaving City Hall in Dublin. The typescript caption reads ‘The story of to-day was the Irish Provisional Government removing their head-quarters from the Mansion House to City Hall, Dublin. Great interest was taken as a detachment of IRA armed with modern rifles were posted around the City Hall as sentries / Picture shows Mr Collins leaving City Hall as the sentries are changed’.
