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 for Alexander Edward Miller promoting his candidacy in the forthcoming Trinity College (Dublin University) by-election. The file includes a list of names of committee members supporting Miller’s candidacy.
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.
A volume containing printed galley-proofs of advertisements and name plates used in 'The Capuchin Annual'. A manuscript annotation on the inside front cover affirms that these advertisements are no longer in use.
Minute book of the committee organising the annual prize draw in aid of the Capuchin Publications Office. The principal prize was an automobile (either a Volkswagen or Austin car). The minute book covers routine organisational meetings from 1955 to 1967. With typescript inserts in the volume.
Programmes for concerts and operatic performances organised as fund-raisers for 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes programmes for concerts held in the Gresham Hotel on 30 Aug. 1964 and on 28 Aug. 1966. The programmes list the music played and the performers. Include autographs of some of the operatic singers.
Lists of prize-winners for 'The Capuchin Annual' prize draw for 1962-3. With official licences from the Dublin Metropolitan Court for the promotion of a lottery. The file is kept within the covers of an 'Irish Industrial Year Book' (1931) from which the pages have been torn
Summaries of receipts and expenditure of the Capuchin Publications Office from 1965-71. Includes figures relating to the financial position of the two publications, 'The Capuchin Annual' and 'Eirigh'. With figures in respect of costs, amounts received from sales, advertising and subscriptions. With manuscript note (in pen) concerning the publications’ financial position in 1971-2.
Invoices from the Irish Photo Engraving Company, Cuffe Lane, Dublin 2. The invoices include copies of the requested photographic engravings. The engravings include sketches of Capuchin life by Grace Perry, illuminated pages from the Book of Kells, the Tara Brooch, Michael Collins, liturgical paintings by Richard King, and the first meeting of Dáil Éireann.