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A letter from Rory O’Connor to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. recalling the republican occupation of the Four Courts and the assistance rendered by the friar during that time. Reference is also made to ‘co-ordinated military action against N.E. Ulster’. O’Connor concludes ‘We have never acknowledged the heroic services which you rendered us during the days you were with us in the Four Courts, during the attack, it seems unnecessar[y] as your devotion to Ireland’s liberty is no less than ours’. (Volume page 112).

A clipping of an article reprinting a copy of Fr. Albert Bibby’s final letter to Éamon de Valera pledging his ‘unchanged and unchangeable, and uncompromising’ allegiance to the Republic and to you, its President’. He argues that ‘in the movement for the independence of Ireland I have always endeavoured to remember that I was a Capuchin Priest’. The volume also includes a covering letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to de Valera enclosing Bibby’ letter and referring to the latter’s ailing health. O’Connor concludes by stating that it is ‘better to die in agony than for freedom than live in luxurious freedom’. (Volume page 116).

A clipping of an article referring to the imminent opening of a new gallery for Irish art in Limerick. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (4 September 1946).

A clipping of an article on an exhibition in the Victor Waddington Galleries on South Anne Street in Dublin which included works by Jacob Epstein, Feliks Topolski, Dora Gordine and Matthew Smith. The article was published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (6 April 1947).

A photographic print of the sculptor Albert Power at work.

A photograph print of detail from a religious sculpture by Albert Power

A letter from Somhairle Mac Cana, Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding ‘two very fine bronze heads’ executed by the late sculptor Joseph Higgins and held in the school's gallery.

A flier and catalogue for the Clare Sheridan exhibition at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin in May 1948. The flier provides a brief biography and a listing of the exhibited works.

A profile of the sculptor Oliver Sheppard by John Crampton Walker published in ‘Irish Life’ (19 January 1917). The article includes an image of Sheppard’s ‘The Death of Cuchulainn’ (1911-2).

A letter from Seamus Murphy, Dillon’s Cross, Cork, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing a photographic print of his bust of Thomas Davis. The memorial bust was unveiled by Éamon de Valera in Mallow the previous week. He also refers to his work titled ‘The Virgin of the Twilight’.