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Letter to Patrick Pearse from A. Brendan Ford, editor, ‘New York Freeman’s Journal and Catholic Register’, 13 Barclay Street, New York. Ford suggests that Pearse has ‘one of the highest gifts from the Gods – the trick of swaying hearts with your words’. The letter appears be incomplete.

Letter to Patrick Pearse, Turlough, Rosmuck, County Galway, from Thomas F. O’Connell, solicitor, 34 Kildare Street, Dublin. The letter refers to arrears of rent due on the Hermitage in Rathfarnham. It reads ‘Whatever arrangement may in the future be considered as to leaving you in possession for the present in [the] Hermitage as tenant at a lower rent, this must not be allowed to interfere with your obligation to pay the rent for the past half year’.

Flier advertising plays to be performed by pupils of Scoil Éanna (St. Enda’s School), Cullenswood House, Oakley Road, on 5-7 February 1910. The plays to be performed were ‘The Destruction of the Hostel’ by Padraic Colum and ‘Iosagán’ by Patrick Pearse. Includes lists of performers in each of the plays and contextual notes on the plays.

Memorandum and Articles of Association of Scoil Éanna. The booklet contains manuscript additions of names, addresses and descriptions of subscribers including ‘Patrick H. Pearse, St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, barrister-at-law, William Pearse, St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham, sculptor’, and ‘Thomas MacDonagh, 32 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin, tutor’. Two sets of signatures with one noting the number of shares taken by each subscriber. The signatures are dated 2 January 1912. The objective of the memorandum is ‘to acquire and take over the Colleges, known as Scoil Éanna and Scoil Ide, now carried on at Rathfarnham, in the County of Dublin, and at Cullenswood Avenue, County of Dublin, with the goodwill of Mr. P.H. Pearse therein …’.

A poster advertising an ‘Aeridheacht’ (or open day) at St. Enda’s School in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Patrick Pearse regularly organised an ‘Aeridheacht’ on the grounds of the school to support Scoil Éanna. These events were also used to promote the Irish language, music, sports, and customs.

An account extract for St. Enda’s School. Includes entries re liabilities and assets. References are made to ‘pupils’ fees paid’, laundry expenses, medical bills, and ‘grazing rents’. An entry refers to an overdraft from the Hibernian Bank ‘secured by lease of Cullenswood House, life insurance …’. The extract appears to be in the hand of Patrick Pearse.

Manuscript list of names in Irish (possibly compiled by Patrick Pearse). The list includes Con Colbert, Brian O’Higgins, The O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille), and Patrick Pearse.

Minute book and attendance record book of the Dublin Battalions of the Irish Volunteers. Includes attendance records from January 1916 to April 1916. A three-page minute record from 22 February 1916 to 15 April 1916 appears to be in the hand of Patrick Pearse. This record includes references to ‘street fighting’, ‘protection on march’, and later ‘mobilization’. An entry on 18 March 1916 refers to ‘problems set re outposts protection [at] D[ublin] Castle’. Includes numerous signatures of Irish Volunteers in attendance at various battalion meetings in the first four months of 1916. Signatures include those of Thomas MacDonagh, Seán Heuston, Frank Shouldice, Frank Daly, Richard McKee, Thomas Slater, Piaras Béaslaí, Oscar Traynor, Thomas Hunter, Éamon de Valera, The O’Reilly (Ua Rathghaille), W. T. Cosgrave and William Pearse. The volume is extant in green, hard bound covers, with a gilt title reading ‘1916’ on the front cover.

Copies of an advertisement flier for the firm of James Pearse & Sons, sculptors, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin.

Blank postcard re a meeting of Conrad na Gaelige. The postcard notes that Patrick Pearse is the secretary.