Affichage de 344 résultats

A file of clippings relating mainly to commemorations of the life and career of Roger Casement. The file includes several letters to the ‘Irish Times’ from readers (1956) with recollections of Casement and with references to the Casement diaries controversy. The file includes:
• Glens memorial to Irish Patriots unveiled / Big gathering at Cushendun ceremony’ (‘Irish Weekly’, 12 Aug. 1950).
• Desmond Ryan, ‘Casement’, (‘The People’, 27 Nov. 1955)
• ‘The truth about Roger Casement’ by Cathal O’Shannon (‘Empire News and Sunday Chronicle’, 25 Dec. 1955). Note: Scan?
• ‘Cathal O’Shannon writes of a woman [Máire Ní Chilín] who was to have helped in Casement rescue’ (Evening Press’, 4 May 1956).
• ‘A German writes in defence of Casement’ by Peadar O’Curry (‘Sunday Independent’, 8 July 1956).
• ‘Author advocates return of Casement’s remains’ (‘Irish Times’, 11 June 1956).
• ‘Bogus yacht tried to trap Casement’ by Cathal O’Shannon (‘Evening Press’, 16 Dec. 1955).
• ‘Casement spurious / Alfred Noyes attacks British Home Office’ (‘Irish Press’, 18 May 1956).
• ‘Memories of Roger Casement’ by Bulmer Hobson (‘Sunday Press’, 22 Apr. 1956). Note: Scan?
• ‘Official silence maintained / Commons Debate on Casement Diaries’ (‘Irish Independent’, 4 Sept. 1956).
• ‘Enigma of Roger Casement’ by John W. Klien (‘Everybody’s’, 2 Mar. 1956).
• ‘The Mystery of Sir Roger Casement’ by R. Dudley Edwards (‘The Leader’, 26 May 1956).
• ‘Two deaths: Casement is their link’ by Cathal O’Shannon (‘Evening Press, 24 Feb. 1956).
• W.H.S. Truell, ‘Serjeant Sullivan and the Casement Trial’, (‘Irish Times’, 13 Jan. 1959).

Letter from Terence MacSwiney (Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne) to Diarmuid [Ó Murchadha]. The letter encloses a printed notice from John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, Chief Press Censor for Ireland, asking newspaper editors to refrain from publishing a statement issued by the members of a Cork club of Sinn Féin re an attack on the club by Royal Irish Constabulary (5 December 1917).

Letters from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain), An Cumann Gaelach, University College Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. re Irish language content in 'The Father Mathew Record' and corrections and emendations to the serial publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”' (by Tadhg Ó Murchadha) in the periodical.

Flier from Anthony Traill to the electors of the University of Dublin (Trinity College). Trail affirms that he ‘shall the Church of Ireland from the misrepresentations of those who seem anxious to make further raids upon the property of the Representative Church Body, by careful financial management, has succeeded in accumulating’. He confirms that in politics he has ‘always been a Conservative’. The file includes a list of committee members supporting Trail’s candidacy.

Lease of Land at 53 and 55 Temple Road Blackrock to Miss Nannie Hughes. There is a map included. There is also a page of notes about leases.

Photographic copy print of a letter from Erskine Childers, Beggars’ Bush Barracks, Dublin, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., declaring that he is ‘to die tomorrow at 7’. He states he will ‘die happy and undefeated and at peace with God and men’. Fr. Albert referred to this letter in his statement titled ‘The Case of Farther Albert, O.S.F.C.’, defending his actions and declaring his ‘absolute impartiality’ during the War of Independence and later at the outbreak of Civil War hostilities in Dublin in 1922 (CA IR-1-1-2-4-6).

Photographic prints (stills) from the 1936 film 'The Dawn'. This was the first full-length Irish feature film with sound. 'The Dawn' was made by Hibernia Films and was produced and directed by Tom Cooper. Scenes from the film were shot in and around Killarney, County Kerry. The film tells a tale of romance and tragedy set against the backdrop of the War of Independence. The cast included 250 amateur actors drawn from the locality. Some of the cast were IRA veterans of the War of Independence. Several of the prints show reconstructions of an ambush on British forces.

Photographic prints relating to the visit to Ireland of President John F. Kennedy in June 1963. The photographs are primarily press prints credited to the 'Irish Times', the 'Irish Press', the 'Irish Independent' and Lensman Photographic Agency, Dublin. Other prints are credited to Liam Kennedy & Sons, photographers, 42 MacCurtain Street, Cork, and Ambrose O’Mullane, 15 Wellington Road, Cork. Many of the prints appeared in a special photographic section of 'The Capuchin Annual' (1964), pp 260-88, titled ‘President Kennedy in Ireland, 1963’. The file includes prints showing President Kennedy attending official functions in Dublin (including a state banquet in Iveagh House, and receptions in Dublin Castle and at Áras an Uachtaráin), at Arbour Hill Cemetery, in Wexford Town and in New Ross, and in motorcade processions on O’Connell Street, Dublin, and on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. Other individuals appearing in the prints include Sean T. O’Kelly, Éamon de Valera, Frank Aiken, Seán Lemass, and Eunice Mary Kennedy.

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Patrick D. Molumby titled ‘Lighting Dublin’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1973), pp 75-85. The file includes many images of lamps and public lighting in Dublin taken by K. Mullen, Dublin Corporation photographer.

Two postcard prints captioned ‘St. Mary’s Abbey, Quarr – General View by Moonlight’ and ‘Avenue, Pantasaph [Capuchin] Monastery’. Cards printed by ‘Valentine’s’ and ‘D.A.L., printing’.