An offprint of an article by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘An Unpublished Poem by W. English’. The article appeared in the first number of ‘Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie’, a periodical founded in 1897 by Kuno Meyer and Ludwig Christian Stern. A manuscript annotation on the first reads ‘To his brother with the writer’s compliments’.
An image of the Anglican Church in Whitechurch in County Kilkenny. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'A tiny country church near Piltown, County Kilkenny'.
Date: 1744 Author: Fr. Silvestro da Milano OSFC Publisher: Milano: nella stamperia di Pietro Antonio Frigerio Full title: 'Annali dell’ ordine de’ frati minori Cappuccini. Appendice al tomo terzo, divisa in due parti / già esposta nell'idioma latino dal padre Fr. Silvestro da Milano annalista generale de’Cappuccini e descritta, ed accresciuta nell'italiana favella da Fr. Giuseppe da Cannobio annalista presentaneo'. Series: Published in two volumes.
A view of Annestown (in Irish ‘Bun Abha’, meaning ‘river’s end’), a small coastal village in County Waterford, in about 1955. The tower of the Church of Saint John the Baptist is visible in the image. This small-scale rural church was constructed by the Board of First Fruits, an institution of the Church of Ireland, which was established in 1711 to build and improve Anglican churches and rectories in Ireland. The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Annestown dates to about 1822.
The series comprises photographic glass plates with descriptions derived principally from annotations and captions on their original containers, boxes and covers.
Date: 1733 Author: Robert Witham (d. 1738) Publisher: [Douai: s.n.], With permission and approbations. Full title: 'Annotations on the New Testament of Jesus Christ: in which I. The literal sense is explained according to the expositions of the ancient Fathers. II. The false interpretations, both of the ancient and modern writers, which are contrary to the received doctrine of the Catholick-Church, are briefly examined and disproved. III. With an account of the chief differences betwixt the text of the ancient Latin-version, and the Greek in the printed editions, and mss. The first volume'. Series: Part of a two-volume publication. A reprint of R. Witham’s annotated translation, first published in 1730.
Minute book of the committee organising the annual prize draw in aid of the Capuchin Publications Office. The principal prize was an automobile (either a Volkswagen or Austin car). The minute book covers routine organisational meetings from 1955 to 1967. With typescript inserts in the volume.
Twelfth annual report of the Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, in 1891. The report notes that ‘in a few days prior to our last annual meeting, this whole building was formally opened by His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin for the advancement of the Total Abstinence cause, and of our Holy Religion in this district of the city’. The report refers to the various fundraising efforts undertaken in support of the local temperance movement. The file also includes a supplemental report (1892). The supplemental report states that an annual meeting ‘should have been held on the third Sunday in January but … His Eminence Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, had gone to reap in a better world the reward of a saintly life in this’. The reports include references to attendances at weekly temperance meetings and to the staging of various lectures, exhibitions and performances in the Hall.
Publisher: Dublin: Humphrey & Armour Language: English: Full title: 'Irish Association for the Prevention of Intemperance / twenty-ninth annual report for the year 1907'. Label on front cover reads: ‘£150 extra per annum required’.