(Left) Fr. Jerome McQuillan and (right) Fr. Albeus McQuillan OFM Cap. The original caption notes that Fr. Jerome replaced Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. and built churches, convent clinics and schools.
A clipping of an article reflecting on James Joyce’s final months. The article was originally published in ‘Time’ magazine (10 February 1941) and reprinted in the ‘Irish Times’ (15 March 1941).
A clipping of an ‘Irish Times’ editorial assessing the legacy of James Joyce who died in Zurich on 13 January 1941. The editorial was published on 14 January 1941.
A clipping of a profile of Mary Isabel Leslie (pseudonym ‘Temple Lane’), an Irish nationalist writer and poet. The source of the clipping is not stated.
An image of the Pádraic Ó Conaire statue in Eyre Square, Galway. In 1929 Conradh na Gaelige (Gaelic League) commissioned the sculptor Albert Power (1881-1945) to create a statue of Ó Conaire. His work was unveiled in Eyre Square by An Taoiseach Éamon de Valera in 1935. The statue image here is credited to Charles C. Fennell who captioned the print ‘Tell me a story’.
A letter from Ada Chesterton (and Robert Lynd) appealing for funds to support Hugh Martin, ‘a political writer and special correspondent’, who has fallen on hard times.