Draft abstract of title of the Capuchin friars to several properties and premises on Church Street and Bow Street. The houses and plots include Nos. 22, 23, 133, 134 and 142 Church Street. The abstract notes that the Church of St. Mary of the Angels is held in fee from Lord De Vesci. The entry for House No. 142 reads: ‘Lease dated 2 June 1834 from Mary Murray to Joseph Nolan containing in breadth in front to Church Street 25 feet 11 inches in the rear 35 feet 7 inches and in depth from front to rear 170 feet 11 inches bounded on the south by the Church St. Chapel, on the east by Church Street, on the west by the Church Street Charity School and on the north by John [ ] house, at a yearly rent of £12 … to hold for 99 years from 1834’.
A photographic postcard print of Kathleen Lynn with the three infant daughters of George Fullerton in July 1917. Known as the ‘Republican Triplets’, the children were named Kathleen, Grace, and Constance. The group includes on the left Dr Lynn (1874-1955) and on the right Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). As the card’s annotation suggests, George Fullerton (d. 1934) was a member of the Irish Citizen Army. During the 1916 Rising, he was wounded while attempting to escape from St. Stephen’s Green to the nearby Royal College of Surgeons building which had been occupied by the Irish Volunteers.
An image of Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde) standing outside Áras an Uachtaráin in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, his official residence as President of Ireland.
A photographic print of Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), President of Ireland, at a public ceremony. Both Éamon de Valera and John A. Costello are present in the background.
A photographic print of (left) Douglas Corrigan (1907-1995) and James Montgomery (1870-1943) at a reception in Dublin on 24 July 1938. Corrigan was a pioneering American aviator who earned the nickname ‘Wrong Way’ after ‘accidentally’ flying across the Atlantic when his original intention was to fly a cross-country route from New York to California in July 1938. James Montgomery was the Irish film censor from 1923 to 1940.
Date: c.1870-1883 Publisher: [Unknown: the title page is missing] Full title: 'The Holy Bible; translated from the Latin vulgate: diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages: The Old Testament, first published by the English college at Douay, A.D. 1609, and the New Testament first published by the English college at Rheims, A.D. 1582, with useful notes, critical, historical, controversial and explanatory selected from the most eminent commentators, and the most able and judicious critics by the Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock'.
