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A clipping of an article reprinting a copy of Fr. Albert Bibby’s final letter to Éamon de Valera pledging his ‘unchanged and unchangeable, and uncompromising’ allegiance to the Republic and to you, its President’. He argues that ‘in the movement for the independence of Ireland I have always endeavoured to remember that I was a Capuchin Priest’. The volume also includes a covering letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to de Valera enclosing Bibby’ letter and referring to the latter’s ailing health. O’Connor concludes by stating that it is ‘better to die in agony than for freedom than live in luxurious freedom’. (Volume page 116).

An image of resting labourers on a farm in Rockwell near Cashel in County Tipperary in about 1955.

A view of two farmers at work on Inishmaan (Inis Meáin), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway, in about 1930.

A view of a farmer sowing seeds in a ploughed field. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The sower went out'.

An image of a farmer with a draught (dray) horse pulling a plough in West Cork in about 1960.

Two plates showing a family group on a wooded road near Rochestown, County Cork. With an annotated cover.

An informal outdoor portrait of a family group (two women and five children). The individuals are not identified.

A group of five individuals (probably a family group) collecting berries along a roadside possibly in County Cork.

A view of a family group comprising three boys and a girl and presumably a mother walking in the woods near Rochestown in County Cork.

A family group around a traditional spinning wheel outside a cottage in rural Ireland in about 1945. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Ireland’s wheel of fortune'.