A booklet of 17 mounted photographs of the destruction in 1916, oblong folio D. (Easons), pictorial wrappers, stitched with a cord, Eason’s. Also Illustrated with advertisements. The first issue, priced at 6d. Caption title: The six days’ rebellion.
The file contains the following edition of this local newspaper: 20 Oct. 1948 (Vol. 23, No. 42). The edition contains report on the celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Patrick Kavanagh Cup. Presented by Mrs Kilcullen’. The base includes silver shields indicating the winning competitors and their schools. The reverse of the bowl is also inscribed with winners’ names from 1971-97.
Copies of a poem titled ‘The Old Metal Man’ referring to the acquisition of Ards House by the Capuchin friars. The poem reads: 'Gone, gone the Ascendancy, “gentry” and others That lorded it over the old native clan, Replaced by the people, the friars and brothers, Whilst still to the fore stands the Old Metal Man'. The file includes a clipping of the poem published in the 'Derry Journal' on 30 Nov. 1935.
'The New World' was published in Chicago and claimed to be the ‘largest Catholic newspaper in the United States’. The file contains the issue: 11 Aug. 1916 (vol. xxv, No. 6). The paper contains an article titled ‘How they butchered James Connolly’. (p. 4).
An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'The new terror ... homes raided in the dead of night; women and children terrorised ... These are some fruits of the Treaty. We will break this new terror as we broke the old. Make no doubt about it'.