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Photographic print of Sir John Lavery’s painting titled ‘High Treason: The Appeal of Roger Casement, The Court of Criminal Appeal, 17 and 18 July 1916’. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print credits the photograph to T.F. Geoghegan, 2 Essex Quay, Dublin.

Letter from William Woodlock, Vickery’s Hotel, Bantry, County Cork. The letter provides detail of his trip to Counties Cork and Kerry. In relation to Bantry, Woodlock wrote ‘Nearly all the names over the shops are English: in fact, it is hard to think one is in Ireland at all, with Kingstons, and Coopers, and Taylors, and Murrays, and Robinsons. The Papists are making a footing, for I saw the name of Moriarty over one of the best shops in the place’.

Letter from John Patrick Lynch, Belfield, Stillorgan Road, Booterstown, Dublin, apologizing for not being able to attend Mrs Woodlock’s funeral in Glasnevin owing to the onset of a bad cold.

Letter from Sister A.E. Woodward RSCJ, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Aberdeen, Scotland. The letter is addressed to Frances Woodlock (possibly William Woodlock’s wife) and refers to the school recently established by the religious sisters in the city. The letter adds ‘Aberdeen is a most interesting old place owing its origin to St. Machar, a disciple of St. Columba. It had many holy Bishops in the good old times and the tombs of several of them are still to be seen’.

List of priests (with biographical information) serving the parishes of Doneraile and Shanballymore in County Cork from 1688 to 1910. Canon Sheehan’s entry reads ‘Born in New-Street, Mallow, March 17th, 1852. Educated at St. Colman’s and Maynooth. Ordained in Cork Cathedral in April 1875; Exeter 1875-1877; Mallow, 1877-1881; Queenstown, 1881-1889; Mallow, 1889-1895. Appointed Parish Priest of Doneraile in July 1895’.

Card to Frank Fahy, ‘Irish Prisoner, Lewes Prison, Lewes, England’, from Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC. The card reads ‘Holy Thursday / You are always remembered since we met at the F[our] C[ourt]’s. May God bless you always. / Fr. Augustine OSFC’.

Letter to Anna Fahy confirming that the ‘bag of clothing’ she has sent has been given to her husband in Reading Jail. The letter adds ‘He is quite well. He is also allowed to write and receive three letters each week’.

A carte de visite produced by Lauder Brothers’ photographic studio, 32 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Mary. 10/1/71’. Another date is given (25 February 1871).

Letter from John O’Mahony, Cork, to a ‘dear friend’ [likely either James Joseph O’Kelly or John O’Connor Power]. The letter reads ‘I have received orders to suppress any attempt at raising an “Irish Brigade” for any purpose than that of Ireland’. The letter adds ‘There are a great many persons here who would be only to anxious to fight for France, but in the face of the orders I have received, you cannot blame me for not giving you the assistance which in my heart I would wish’. Endorsed ‘Memo / written by O’Mahony … Cork’. 25 February 1871. Endorsed on front page ‘7197’.