Blank invitation card to the Pontifical Mass held in Holy Trinity Church to mark the centenary of the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The mass was celebrated by the Most Rev. Cornelius Lucey, Bishop of Cork, on 9 Dec. 1956.
An invitation to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. to attend a private viewing of an exhibition of paintings by Jack B. Yeats at the Victor Waddington Galleries, 8 South Anne Street, Dublin. (Volume page 223).
An invitation card to a lecture by Alice Milligan on the origins of Irish Theatre in Jury’s Hotel in Dublin organised by Irish Pen. It is noted that Kathleen O’Brennan is honorary secretary of Irish Pen.
An invitation card to a private viewing of Evie Hone paintings of the Stations of the Cross (commissioned for the parish church in Kiltulla in County Galway).
An invitation card for the first meeting of Dáil Éireann held on 7 January 1919. This inaugural meeting was held in private with only Sinn Féin members invited. The principal business conducted at this meeting was the election of a committee tasked with the drawing up of key documents to be discussed at the first sitting of the Dáil proper which was held on 21 January in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin.
An invitation to a banquet organised by the Knights of Equity, an Irish Catholic fraternal organization, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 17 March 1950. The card shows Blarney Castle, a fifteenth-century tower house, in County Cork. The festivities organised by the Knights of Equity included the singing of popular Irish songs such as ‘It’s a great day for the Irish’ and ‘When Irish eyes are smiling’.
An invitation to a ceremony conferring the Freedom of Dublin upon Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, and Paul A. Dever, Governor of Massachusetts, at City Hall. The invitation was sent to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (Volume page 49).