Letters to Fr. Donal O’Mahony OFM Cap. mostly referring to (or enclosing) literary and poetry submissions for publication in 'Eirigh' (formerly 'The Father Mathew Record'). The file includes letters and literary content from: • L.H. Dalziel • Fachtna O’Driscoll • Patrick Lavin • Breda Owens • Eric Rayner • Michael Hilton • Dr. J.A. Murphy • Una Brennan • Br. Michael Murphy • Mairi Cosgrave • Tom M. Duddy • Enda Halpin • Phil Lynch • Fergus Egan • Liam Brophy • Clare Holland • Elizabeth Faye • Tom McSweeney • Gerard O’Donoghue • Kathleen Clerkin • Douglas Foley • Tom Fallon • Fr. Brian P. Power • Maire Mooney • Bernadette Sayer • Tony Dunne • Noirin Kearney • Fr. Donatus McNamara OFM Cap. (re missionary work in Africa). The file also includes a printed flier (1969) advertising 'Eirigh' as a magazine communicating ‘the Christian message to a modern family readership in the light of our inherited spiritual, national and cultural traditions’.
Draft poetry submitted by Beda Herbert for publication in 'The Father Mathew Record'. The poems are titled ‘Our Lady of Night’, ‘Queen of Silence’, ‘Oculos ad nos convertere’.
Draft of an article by Fr. Clifford J. Stevens titled ‘Father Flanagan of Boys Town’. The article was written in 1967 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Boys Town, Nebraska, by Fr. Edward Joseph Flanagan. Fr. Stevens was a graduate of Boys Town and served as a chaplain in the United States Air Force stationed in Japan.
Drafts of an article by Séamus Ó Ríain (Dr. James Ryan) titled ‘Dáil Éireann’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969). The draft is dated 23 Sept. 1968.
A booklet of 17 mounted photographs of the destruction in 1916, oblong folio D. (Easons), pictorial wrappers, stitched with a cord, Eason’s. Also Illustrated with advertisements. The first issue, priced at 6d. Caption title: The six days’ rebellion.
Celtic Cross label. Ringed cross with shamrock leaves; in the four ‘corners’ and inscriptions of ‘Éire’ and ‘Sinn Féin’ (twice) on cross. The difference between the two years being only colour. Commissioned by Arthur Griffith and designed by Lily Williams this stamp depicted the Cross of Cong with ‘ÉIRE’ at centre. Sinn Féin members paid a halfpenny each for the stamps and affixed them to letters as a propaganda move. The 1908 Post Office Act outlawed their use after protests by MPs in the House of Commons. They were continued however up to 1916 and beyond. The Cross of Cong design was adopted by the Irish Free State for some values of Irish definitive postage stamps- 3d, 10d and 11d - which were in use up to 1968. Hibernia and Wolfhound Label. Hibernia (Erin) with harp, with arms of the four provinces of Ireland (at corners) and wolfhound; inscriptions ‘Éire’ (top panel) and ‘Sinn Féin’ (left and right panels). The labels were printed by James Walker & Co. Ltd., Dublin in 1908, and again in 1916. The 1916 version was re-drawn and thus differs from the 1908 version.
A booklet describing the attacks on civilians which took place in North King Street during the Rising. The work was written from a Sinn Féin perspective and was authored by John J. Reynolds.
