Menu card for a Unionist Banquet held in The Rotunda, Dublin, on 26 January 1893. The event was held to honour several Unionists MPs. The politicians were Horace Plunkett (1854-1932), the Irish Unionist Alliance MP for South Dublin from 1892 to 1900. Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster (1855-1909), the Liberal Unionist MP for West Belfast from 1892 to 1906. Richard Martin Dane (1852-1903), MP for North Fermanagh from 1892 to 1898. William Kenny QC (1846-1921), MP for St. Stephen’s Green (Dublin) from 1892 to 1898, and John Ross QC (1853-1935), MP for Londonderry city from 1892 to 1895.
A clipping of an article titled ‘On an Irish Island / a fifth-century monastery’. ‘Irish Independent’ (23 October 1919). The article refers to the ruins of monastic site on the Maharees Islands off the coast of County Kerry.
A general election flier for Alfred ‘Alfie’ Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, in February 1932. The flier was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (16 February 1932).
A report of the Committee of the Dublin South City Special Coal Fund / 1872-3. The flier provides a brief account of the work of the committee and a list of parishes and districts supplied with coal. Includes a list of contributors and subscribers.
An original letter of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., to Br. Colman Cregan OFM Cap. referring to his treatment in St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, California. He also thanks the ‘good people of Santa Yenz parish’ for sending him their good wishes. (Volume page 90).
A Christmas greeting card from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain). The card dates to December 1937 and was probably sent to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The Spanish text translates as ‘Forward to victory over fascism in 1938!’. The greeting in Irish reads ‘Happy Christmas and New Year / from / the Irish Republican Army / “Connolly Battalion” / XV International Brigade / Army of the Republic of Spain / Christmas 1937’. (Volume page 107).
A clipping of a letter from Art Ó Briain (Art O’Brien) commending the contents of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942). A footnote to the article indicates that the letter was sent to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. who published it with Ó Briain’s consent. The clipping is likely taken from ‘The Father Mathew Record’. (Volume page 121).
A clipping of an article reporting on the death of Colonel Joseph O’Reilly, the former aide-de-camp to Michael Collins. The article was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (29 July 1943). (Volume page 173).