details of the celebrations, names of people involved and list of events.
A draft article titled ‘What Pius X tried to save us from’. The author of the text is not stated but the manuscript appears to be in the hand of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
Copies of the ‘Weekly Review of the German News Agency’ and a solitary copy of ‘Radio News from Italy’. Essentially Axis propaganda, these English-language news reviews were designed for overseas circulation in neutral or non-aligned countries (like Ireland). They were usually disseminated by German and Italian diplomatic missions abroad. The news sheets featured short articles on Axis victories and reports on the brutality of the Allied bombing campaign. The reviews aimed to justify the war and to cultivate support for the Axis regimes, particularly by focusing on the perceived necessity of defeating Soviet communism.
newspaper articles concerning Presentation Watervliet, advertisement for vocations, photos of Sisters and Community, book of prayers and meditations.
Copies of an edition of the republican bulletin ‘War News’, No. 4 (27 July 1940). The bulletin provides an Irish republican perspective on the Second World War. The bulletin was essentially a propaganda news sheet issued by the IRA under Sean Russell’s leadership.
Includes:
A visitor book containing entries from pupils of St. Fintan’s College and other visitors from 1972 to 1990.
A visitor book signed by visiting priest from 1974 to 1982.
A visitor book signed by past pupils of St. Fintan’s College who attended the last formal past pupil’s reunion on 27 May 1990 and a typescript document recounting the reunion.
A visitor book signed by visiting priests who celebrated mass in Cashel Convent.
Presentation SistersSome of the files in this subseries include combined visitation reports on missionary activity in both South Africa and Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia).
Includes; vinyl record collection of the South Presentation.