Letter to Lena May Murphy, Cork, from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (23 Nov. 1918). It reads: ‘I must thank you very sincerely for your great kindness to my dead father in his last illness. All at home are never done telling everybody of you and your wonderful goodness’. This letter was sent by [Maire] Murphy, 35 Mercier Park, Curragh Road, Cork, to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (13 Nov. 1991), explaining that Lena May Murphy was her late aunt. With a copy photograph of Lena May Murphy, and notes by Fr. Nessan re Lena May who worked as a nurse caring for elderly patients.
Text of a poem or song signed by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and dated ‘9/4/4/20’. Fr. Dominic occasionally used the republican calendar to denote his years: 1920 was the fourth year of Republic founded in 1916. With a phonetic aid to pronunciation.
The series contains souvenir booklets and miscellaneous ephemera and artefacts relating to the 1916 Rising. Most of the booklets contain photographic postcards depicting various figures, events and artefacts associated with the Easter Rising and its aftermath.
An Anti-Treaty handbill imploring Free State soldiers to ‘come out from the Free State Army at first opportunity, and renew your allegiance to the Old Love’.
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.
Letter from Fr Tom Davitt to Sr Rose, Little Sisters of the Assumption, regarding the plaque recording a bequest by Emily M M Clarke to St Joseph’s, Blackrock. Also a note concerning the letter by Fr Tom Davitt CM.