Two memorial cards for Peadar Healy (Peadar Ó hÉaluighthe), from Phibsboro in Dublin, who died on 23 April 1919. Healy was a captain in the 1st Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and was a participant in the 1916 Rising. One of the cards (with Irish text) has a photographic print. It was produced by Brian na Banban, a pseudonym used by Brian O’Higgins (1882-1963), a founding member of the Volunteers and himself a 1916 veteran.
Memorial card for Liam Mellows, Rory O’Connor, Joseph (‘Joe’) McKelvey and Richard (‘Dick’) Barrett who were executed by firing squad in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin on 8 December 1922.
List of demands made by Thomas MacDonagh whilst jailed in Richmond Barracks. The list reads:
Visits to prisoners
Treatment of officers
Dependents and relations
Blankets
Books
The wearing [of] red cross badge who were not combatants
Washing arrangements Faint signature of ‘Thomas Mac Donough, Jacobs Factory’ is visible in centre of page. Addition in different hand at bottom of page reads: ‘No 7 will be allowed. Other complaints cannot be dealt with here. Louis [Ramsey?], 1/C. Richmond B[arrac]ks, 1/5/16’.
Black-and-white photograph of non-Vincentians, taken in 1925 on the occasion of the Feast of Translation of St Vincent de Paul at All Hallows. It probably shows the ordination class of 1925.
Lease of property at Newtown Castlebyrne, Blackrock, between Richard Beeby Whitmore of Wexford and Andrew Reynolds of the city of Dublin. The attached map shows the lands bounding the Newtown Castlebyrne land. The bounding lands are held by Andrew Reynolds, Edmond Burrows [Burrowes] [Burroughs] and Mathew Byrne.
Step by Step / from the Republic back into the Empire / The evolution of Eamon de Valera / by Diarmuid Ó Cruadhlaoich / Judge of the Supreme Court of the Irish Republic.
Letters from Éamon de Valera, Sean F. Lemass, Seán T. O’Kelly, Oscar Traynor and John A. Costello concerning offers to defray the expenses involved in the repatriation and later accepting invitations to attend the Mass and re-internment of Fathers Albert and Dominic at Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork.
Photographic print of President Seán T. O’Kelly at the Capuchin Retreat House, Raheny. Typescript annotation on the reverse reads: ‘One of the first events covered by Gael-Linn’s all-Irish newsreel – directed, edited, and produced in Ireland was the blessing of the Calvary at the Capuchin Retreat House Raheny on June 14 in memory of two patriot priests, Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., where Mr. O’Kelly and Mr. de Valera made their last appearance together as President and Taoiseach. The still from the ‘Amharc Eireann’ shows Mr. O’Kelly waving to the crowd as he leaves. With him are Rev. Fr. Hillary McDonagh OFM Cap, (left), Rev. Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. and Rev. Fr. Theodore Murphy OFM Cap., Superior of the Retreat House. The file includes a colour photographic print of the ‘Calvary in memory of Fr. Albert and Fr. Dominic erected by the old boys of Fianna Éireann’.