A clipping of a profile of the sculptor May Power by Geraldine Coster published in ‘Personality Parade’ (April 1947). May Power was the daughter of the renowned Dublin-born sculptor Albert Power.
A photographic print of Cork Corporation who voted for the election of Tomás MacCurtain as Lord Major of Cork on 31 January 1920. The photograph shows the scene in the council chamber of Cork City Hall on the day Mac Curtain was elected Lord Mayor.
A membership certificate for the ‘Wolfe Tone and Ninety Eight Memorial Association’. The document presents four scenes broadly connected with the 1798 rebellion with titles: ‘Cave Hill Compact, June 11th, 1795; Dublin, 23rd July, 1803; French Landing at Killala, August 22nd 1798; Foundation stone, National Memorial, S. Green Dublin, laid August 15th 1898’.
‘Memorandum of Ambulance work & efforts for peace’ by J.P. Homan, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. The memorandum refers to his work with St. John’s Ambulance during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin in June and July 1922. Specific mention is made of Homan’s interactions with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and the friar’s efforts to secure a cessation of the fighting. Includes a short clipping of an obituary for J.P. Homan (‘Irish Independent’, 6 Aug. 1944). (Volume pages 79-87).
An account by Sister M. Conception, a Presentation nun, relating to the memorial statue of Canon Patrick Sheehan which was unveiled in the church in Doneraile, County Cork, on 18 October 1925.