Black-and-white group photograph of Irish Vincentians in Drumcondra, taken April 1939. Most were seminarians at this moment. From left to right are to be seen: Francis Cleere, Matthew Ryan, Maurice O'Neill, Francis Sweeney, John Roughan (junior), Cornelius Curtin, John O'Hare, and Batholomew Sinnott, all CM.
Counterpart lease on property at Temple Road, in the town of Blackrock, in the parish of Monkstown, in the borough of Dun Laoghaire, in the barony of Rathdown, by Reverend John Carr CM and other Vincentian priests to the tenant Christopher Gregory, Dublin dairy proprietor. The land is bounded by the wall of Saint Joseph's College on the south, as well as by other names premises on the north, east and west. 43, 45, 47, 49 and 51 Temple Road are also being leased to Christopher Gregory. The lease is for 68 years for fifteen pounds and fifteen shillings rent every half year. The lease includes a map. There is also a list summarising the details of the lease.
Photographic postcard print of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. with another Capuchin friar (possibly Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap.) dated 17 Mar. 1919; print of Fr. Dominic (full length and seated) attached to a greeting card with annotation: ‘To Helen, with best wishes, Fr. Dominic, OSFC, 1/1/19’; undated photographic print of Fr. Dominic (full length in Capuchin Franciscan habit).
Copy note ‘taken from a postcard (blood-stained) taken from the breast pocket of a dead German soldier by young Canniffe of Barrick St., Cork – Dec. 1914’. It is added ‘The p[ost] c[ard] was sent to Canniffe’s father by young Canniffe’. In German.
Passport of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. issued by the British Foreign Office. Fr. Dominic’s age is given as 36, his profession as a Roman Catholic Clergyman and is defined as a ‘British-born subject’. With half-length portrait photograph pasted into document. The ink stamps on the passport indicate that Fr. Dominic travelled through France and Belgium in 1919.
A booklet of prints, pictures and scenes of the various leaders, events and artefact’s associated with the Easter Rising. Printed in Dublin: Office of “Irish Life”, [1916]. On cover: Passed by the press censor.
A pictorial record album of the destruction of parts of Dublin during the Rising. Published in Dublin by Mecredy, Percy and Co., Ltd. Title from cover. At head of cover title: ‘Passed for transmission abroad by the official press bureau’. Caption title: ‘The Sinn Fein rebellion’.
The note reads: ‘Dear Mother, we had to surrender so we march to Phoneix [sic] Park, don’t forget to pray us’. A partially decipherable name and address is given on the reverse: ‘Matthew [ ], 12 Great Longford St, Dublin, off Aungier St.’ The item was found within an envelope annotated: ‘Farewell letter to His mother of a soldier of the I.R.A. who fought for Ireland in the Rising of Easter Week, 1916’.
