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Circular letter from Thomas P. Butler, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Irish Landowners’ Convention, regarding subscriptions.

Circular letter from Gilbert De L. Willis, Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention, re the forthcoming annual meeting of the Convention and a banquet to honour five recently elected Unionist members of parliament.

Circular letter from Gilbert De L. Willis, Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention, re the forthcoming annual meeting of the Convention to be held in Dublin.

Letter from Robert. M.D. Sanders, Honorary Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention re the address for official communications.

Circular letter from Wentworth Erck re reports on compensation, charges and purchase submitted to Irish Landowners’ Convention delegates.

Circular letter from John Henry de la Poer Beresford, 5th Marquis of Waterford (1844-1895) read at a meeting of the County Waterford branch of the Irish Landowners’ Convention.

Circular letter from the Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers, Headquarters, 2 Dawson Street, Dublin, re a meeting in Rathfarnham and the need to show ‘readiness to act on the staff of Commandant P.H. Pearse, G.O.C., Dublin Brigade, during the operations’.

Circular letter from the Catholic Boys’ Brigade Committee, Capuchin Friary, Church Street. The circular refers to the enrollment of over two thousand young boys and the need for subscriptions for the organisation. It reads: ‘The work is Catholic and essentially non-political … The premises at 156 Church Street have been purchased in fee, and are undergoing the necessary alterations. Good Brass and Fife and Drum Bands are in course of organisation; uniforms have to be provided for the boys, many initial expenses are incurred’. The file contains three copies of the document.

Circular letter from Seosamh Mac Donnchadha (Joseph MacDonagh), Minister for Labour, Dáil Ėireann, to the Superiors of all Religious Houses in Ireland, enclosing a copy statement, written by a Belfast priest, detailing ‘the Orange atrocities committed on Catholic workers and others last July and August’. MacDonagh asks the Religious Superiors to use ‘their wide influence to assist in the rigid enforcement and maintenance of the Belfast Trade Boycott’. MacDonagh was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin MP for the Tipperary North constituency at the 1918 general election. He was Director of the ‘Belfast Boycott’, an attempt in 1920–21 to boycott goods from Ulster that were being imported into the south of Ireland. With a printed flier titled ‘Black list, Belfast Economic Boycott’ listing the principal firms acting as distributors for ‘Belfast goods’ in Dublin and in other parts of Ireland.

A printed statement from Domhnall Óg Ó Ceallacháin (Donal O’Callaghan, 1891-1962), Lord Mayor of Cork, expressing his thanks for the expressions of condolences on the death of Terence MacSwiney, his predecessor.