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’.
A clipping of images showing the presentation of regimental colours to the Irish National Volunteers. The images show William Redmond MP and are taken from the ‘Daily Mail’ (25 September 1914).
An anti-Treaty republican handbill. The text reads ‘Mr. [William T.] Cosgrave stated on Sunday in Dublin, that the Republican Hunger-strikers are in jail because life and property were not safe while they were at large. … During the past six months, sixteen Free State Soldiers have been convicted in the criminal courts for robbery under arms and murder. .. Not even one Republican soldier has been charged with any of these offences. Who then are the robbers?’.
A clipping of a report on various Sinn Féin meetings and demonstrations in the country. Reference is made to speeches made by Darrel Figgis and George Noble Plunkett. The report was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (20 September 1917).
A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’), a small Irish neo-fascist party. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).
A clipping of a report on requiem mass for William ‘Willie’ Redmond held in the Church of St. Francis Xavier in Dublin. The article was published in the ‘Evening Telegraph’ (13 June 1917).
