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An invitation card to the opening of the Chester Beatty Library on Shrewsbury Road in Dublin on 8 August 1953.

Letter from Lennox Robinson (1886-1958), 1 Clare Street, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. Robinson writes ‘Things are very dark and distracted over here but not more than elsewhere I suppose. Perhaps, somehow, good may come but one often despairs of it’.

A flier supporting the campaign for the enfranchisement of women published by Lillian Metge (1871-1954), a Belfast-born suffragette and women’s rights campaigner.

Letter from Barry M. Egan (1879-1954), 32 Patrick Street, Cork, to Fr. Henry Rope. Egan refers to the murder of Tomás Mac Curtain and provides a commentary on the ongoing independence struggle.

Letter from Fr. Richard Henebry to Maurice Davin, Deerpark, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. Davin refers to his pleasure on having recently met with Henebry in his home in County Tipperary.

A letter to Fr. Richard Henebry from Éamonn O’Neill, The Mill, Kinsale, County Cork. Ó Neill writes that he knows that Henebry will be in Cork, and expresses his hope that he might come to Kinsale and give a speech encouraging the use of Irish.

Letter from Eleanor Hull, 14 Stanley Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, London, to Fr. Richard Henebry. Hull refers to arrangements for a meeting with Henebry and to a story submitted to the Irish Texts Society for publication.

A clipping of an advertisement for Seán Ó Currín, ‘Scríbhne Risteird de Hindeberg’. The volume comprised an edited collection of Fr. Richard Henebry’s writings and speeches. It was was published by Browne and Nolan in Dublin in 1924.

Programme for the literary sessions organised by the Cork Young Men’s Society for November 1903 to April 1904. The speakers included Fr. Richard Henebry on ‘Irish Music’ (1 December 1903) and Fr. John Butler OSFC on ‘The work and homes of the early Irish Franciscans’ (23 February 1904).

A photographic print of Fr. Richard Henebry with three university graduates presumably in University College Cork. The print is by Guy & Co., Cork.