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A flier supporting the campaign for the enfranchisement of women published by Lillian Metge (1871-1954), a Belfast-born suffragette and women’s rights campaigner.

A clipping of an article reporting on Seán MacBride’s remarks during an American radio interview affirming that there are 'no communists or any communist party in the new Irish Republic. They are all in Belfast’. The clipping is taken from the ‘Evening Herald’ (30 April 1949).

Short note from Bishop John Harty, sent from the Royal Marine hotel, saying that he would be happy to confirm the boys in Glenstal, and confirming that Mother Mary Martin would not be allowed to establish her congregation in his diocese at Glenstal.

A flier titled ‘No man’s land’. Reprinted from the ‘Social Crediter’ (21 February 1942). The flier was printed by William Brown & Son Ltd., Chichester Street, Belfast. The flier attacks Irish neutrality and highlights what is termed Jewish influence in Irish political life. Refences are made to Robert Briscoe (1894-1969), described as a ‘Zionist Jew, of Lithuanian origin’, and his connections with Irish republicans, Fianna Fáil, and Éamon de Valera, ‘the son of an Irish mother and a “Spanish”, presumably Portuguese-Jewish father’. Mention is also made of the contemporary activities of the IRA described as the ‘latter day edition of the old Jewish-controlled affair of the same name’. The text is initialled ‘B.J.’. A manuscript annotation on the final pages seemingly suggests that this text may have appeared in the ‘Daily Express’.

A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘No conscription! Ireland's case re-stated / Address to the President of the United States of America from the Mansion House Conference’. (Dublin: Mansion House Conference, [1918]).

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Advice from C. Heerey C.S.S.P. about coming to Nigeria

A postcard print of a demonstration in Clogheen in County Tipperary in 1898. The demonstration commemorated Father Nicholas Sheehy (c.1728-1766), a local priest who was executed following what were widely believed to be false charges of involvement in agrarian unrest during the Penal Law era.

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This series comprises a collection of local newspapers (mostly published in Kilkenny). Many of the items include articles covering events and ceremonies connected with the Capuchin friars in the city.