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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.

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.

Two examples of the ‘Vera Effigies Sacri Vultus Domini Nostri Iesu Christi’ (‘True image of the face of Our Lord Jesus Christ’. The ‘Sacri Vultus’ is a Holy Face relic (an effigy or drawing) created by touching the original of Veronica’s veil held in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. An imprinted Papal wax seal is extant on each of the cloth items. One of the examples in the file is dated 1879.

A letter from Pádraig [ ], Railway Square, Waterford city, to T.N. Hickie, enclosing two copies of a tribute poem dedicated to ‘your great brother Dr. O’Hickie’. The poem is most likely dedicated to Fr. Michael P. O’Hickey (An tAthair Micheál P. Ó hIceadha), a County Waterford-born priest, academic, and Irish language campaigner.