An image of John McCormack in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. The original caption (credited to the International News Photo Agency) is appended to the image side of the photograph. The caption title reads ‘Irish Thrush [McCormack] on Southern Lark’. It also refers to McCormack’s companions in the image (Betty King of Miami Beach and Terry Lawlor of California) as ‘Two Fair Colleens’. The caption also notes that the photograph was taken at Jack Dempsey’s Cocktail Room in Miami Beach. (Volume page 143).
A telegram referring to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty by Dáil Éireann on 7 January 1922. The telegram reads ‘Roche, Presbytery, Winchester St., [St Helier] Jersey / Treaty ratified majority seven / Jim’. (Volume page 152).
A clipping of a cartoon by Grace Gifford titled ‘The Bridal Gown’. The drawing was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (7 November 1913). (Volume page 159).
A clipping of an article reporting the appointment of new government ministers. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (3 July 1943). (Volume page 167).
A clipping of an image of the bands of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, the Irish Guards, and the Royal Irish Constabulary assembled outside the Mansion House on Dawson Street in Dublin at a recruitment meeting on 7 May 1915. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (8 October 1915). The original caption for the photograph reads ‘The Travelling Recruiting Office, taken outside the Mansion House, May 7, 1915 – the day of the departure of the Guards’ Band from Ireland at the close of a successful recruiting tour. On the platform of the Recruiting Office are the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the High Sheriff, Mr. Henry McLaughlin, and Sir Maurice Dockrell, D.L. The group on the steps include Capt. the Hon. Alexander and Lieutenant Purcell of the Guards; Lieutenant Archer Redmond MP; Sir Neville Chamberlain, Colonel Edgeworth Johnson, and several members of the Central Recruiting Council’. (Volume page 200).
A clipping of an image of a crowd at a recruitment meeting in Macroom in County Cork. The image was published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (8 October 1915). (Volume page 202).
A clipping of a report of a speech by Nora Connolly, the daughter of James Connolly, in St. Andrew’s Hall in Glasgow. The article is taken from ‘Forward’, a Scottish socialist newspaper (18 October 1919).
Letter from Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Ard Mhuire Friary, County Donegal, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the success of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and referring to his work on his article on the Pope.