A letter from Alan Downey, editor of the ‘Waterford News’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. supplying some biographical details and family history. The volume also holds a copy of a four-page leaflet titled ‘The “News” in the Nation’s fight for liberty’ relating to Edmund Downey’s experiences during the revolutionary period.
A clipping of an article reporting on arrangements for the state funeral of Douglas Hyde. The article is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (15 July 1949).
A photographic print of the firing of the 21-gun salute at the Phoenix Park in Dublin to mark the death of the former President Douglas Hyde. The image is credited to the ‘Evening Herald’.
A photographic print of President Seán T. O’Kelly and Éamon de Valera of the burial of Douglas Hyde at Portahard Church cemetery, Frenchpark, County Roscommon.
A clipping of an advertisement re the sale of the ‘extensive and valuable library of works in Gaelic, English and other languages’ and other effects in Douglas Hyde’s former residence of Ratra in the Phoenix Park in Dublin.