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First anniversary cards for the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising including one card for Joseph Mary Plunkett, William Pearse, Michael O’Hanrahan, Edward Daly, another for Major John MacBride, and one for ‘for the repose of the souls of the following Irishmen who were executed by English Law’. (Hand coloured, tricolour and green flag over crossed pikes. Interlacing ribbon reads: ‘Our Prayers Daily’.

Letter from [T. Martin?], 12 Trinity Street, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. enclosing an Irish Volunteer button. One is in brass with a harp decoration. Also enclosed is a uniform badge: I.V. (Irish Volunteers) with green enamel inlay, initials and central harp, the reverse stamped ‘P. Quinn & Co., Belfast’. The letter informed Fr. Aloysius that ‘in searching among the ruins of G.P.O. I found the enclosed. I thought it might interest you and took the liberty of sending it to you’.

Letter from the Royal Insurance Office, to Margaret Pearse, Sandymount Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin, re a policy of life insurance on her late husband (James Pearse) and the amount paid to the National Bank Ltd. on his death. With two manuscript enclosures seemingly re James Pearse’s debts and his account with the National Bank (4 March 1902).

Letters to James Pearse from W.J. Ramsey, Manager, the Progressive Publishing Company, 28 Stonecutter Street, London. The letter of 25 November 1884 encloses a clipping of an advertisement for ‘Socialism a curse / a reply to a Lecture delivered by Edward B. Aveling’ and ‘Is God the First Cause?’ (1883) by ‘Humanitas’ (James Pearse).

Photographic prints annotated on the reverse: ‘J. Pearse / Queen’s Robing Room / House of Lords’. The images appear to show some of the statues of the twenty-six princesses extant in the Queen’s robing room in the House of Lords, London. Pearse made carvings of princesses and robes and crowns for the ‘throne room’ (or the ‘Queen’s robing room’) in the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster.

Copy photographic prints of Roger Casement, with William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne, and Alice Stopford Green. The photograph was possibly taken at Ardglass in County Down in c.1913.

Two copies of the ‘Speech of Roger Casement from the dock / Executed in Pentonville Prison, August 3rd, 1916.’ (Dublin: published by Fergus O’Connor, 1916).

An account book of the Dublin City & County Board of the Irish Volunteers. The account is with the Munster and Leinster Bank Ltd., Dame Street, Dublin. A manuscript title on the front cover reads ‘Dublin Co. Volunteers / Dublin City & Co. Board / 26 Great Brunswick Street / 2 Dawson Street / Dublin / Treasurer / Frank Fahy’. The entries cover the period from 31 October 1915 to 30 June 1916. Includes references to many transactions on the account made by Philip Bernard Joseph Cosgrave (1884-1923), and to entries made by ‘Byrne’, ‘Hanarhan’, 'Hannigan', and others.

Expenses account of James Joseph O’Kelly. An accompanying note is endorsed ‘account for arms / £206 / expenses to Dublin’. Both the note and the one-page expenses account are endorsed ‘EE 7205’. The expenses relate to O’Kelly’s travel from France to Dublin.

A clipping of an article by Aodh de Blacam titled ‘Censorship or Anarchy’ published in ‘The Standard’ in November 1941. The file also includes a clipping of an article by Gearoid Mac Eoin titled ‘Censorship: Church and State’ (‘The Standard’, 14 Nov. 1941) and C.B. Murphy, ‘Sex, Censorship and the Church’ (‘The Bell’, Sept. 1941).