A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943) published in ‘New Zealand Tablet’ (10 November 1943). The article refers to the wartime prohibition on sending printed material to Ireland from New Zealand.
Clippings from the ‘Irish Times’ and the ‘Irish Press’ referring to the prohibition on the circulation of the ‘Orange Terror’ offprint in Northern Ireland as the book was deemed ‘prejudicial to preservation of peace and the maintenance of order’.
Manuscript transcript of song ‘Republicans are We’ to the air of ‘The Soldiers’ Song’. The first verse reads: ‘When bravely we’d fought our land to free Our Tricolour flying o’ar us, The ancient foe for peace did seek, From I.R.A. victorious Our envoys went to London town And there, let our Republic down; But still, till Freedom battle’s won Republicans are We’.
An image of two inhabitants of the Aran Islands in about 1940. The title of the print is ‘seanchas’, an old Irish word referring to the act of storytelling and conveying an ancient tale handed down by oral tradition. A ‘seanchaí’ was a storyteller or a custodian of this tradition.
The song uses the refrain ‘Up Plunkett and McGuinness! For I want my four green fields'. Joseph McGuinness contested the 1917 South Longford by-election. At that time, he was prison in Lewes, Sussex, for his part in the 1916 Rising.
A clipping of an article praising ‘The Advocate’ newspaper published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia. The article notes that Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903) was one of its earliest editorial writers. The clipping is taken from the ‘Saint Joseph lilies’ magazine (Toronto, Canada).