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A clipping of a satirical article reporting on a performance of a play by Myles na gCopaleen (Brian O’Nolan / pen-name Flann O’Brien) in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (26 January 1943).

A letter from Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Boston College, Massachusetts, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his concern on hearing that the friar has had to travel to London for a serious operation. Connolly writes ‘I cannot believe that England could be a more desirable place for you at the moment. Every day brings such added horrors regarding friends on the other side of the Atlantic …’.

A letter from Kathleen O’Brennan to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. promising to speak to Alice Milligan on the subject of the ‘anti-partition’ campaign.

Letter from Maurice Walsh, Ard na Glaise, Stillorgan Park, County Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing his ‘usual subscription towards making damn Corkmen saintly – if that is at all possible’.

A print of studio portrait of Nora Chesson (née Hopper), an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and journalist.

An image of the Clonmult Monument in Midleton, County Cork. Designed by the sculptor Seamus Murphy, the obelisk commemorates the IRA members who were killed in the Clonmult ambush (20 February 1921) during the War of Independence.

An postcard print of the entrance to the Irish College of St. Anthony in Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. The partially obscured inscription over the archway reads ‘Do ċum glóire Dé agus onóra na hÉireann (‘For the glory of God and the honour of Ireland’) and is taken from the ‘Annals of the Four Masters’.

A series of postcard prints of the Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Quarr on the Isle of Wight.

The front cover of ‘The Catholic Mirror’ (March 1945). The illustration is titled 'Saint Patrick's arrival in Ireland, at early dawn'. The bound volume includes some extracts from an article on the life of Saint Patrick published in the periodical.

A clipping of an article titled ‘Will the State save Dan O’Connell’s home for the Nation’ published in ‘The Kerryman’ (7 July 1945).