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A ticket for a republican event titled ‘Arms for Irishmen / Best Dance of the Season’. (Volume page 187).

A single ticket of James Joseph O’Kelly for a journey from Le Havre to Dublin (via Southampton and London). 20 February 1871. With a cover addressed to ‘Monsieur O’Kelly, Hotel de Londres, Le Havre, France’. The one-page account note is endorsed ‘7205’.

The volume contains information in respect of ticket sales and cash derived from various lectures and concert performances at Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. The Hall was regularly frequented by those interested in promoting cultural revivalist activities such as storytelling and festivals of native song and dance. The volume records that Pádraig Pearse gave a lecture in the Hall entitled ‘Education in Ancient Ireland’ on 20 Nov. 1905. On 29 Jan. 1906, the Chevalier Sheeran gave a talk on subject of the ‘alleged atrocities in the Congo Free State’. Each entry is signed by a secretary or officer of the Hall Committee. The signatories include J.W. Whitmore and J. Scanlan.

Timetable and programme of competitions at the Father Mathew Feis in Dublin which was due to be held between 23 April and 30 April 1916. The event was short by the outbreak of fighting in the Church Street area on 24 April.

An illustration by Seán O’Connor (also known as John ‘Blimey’ O’Connor), a London-born republican prisoner at Tintown No. 3 Camp at the Curragh in County Kildare. The drawing is dated July 1923 and is titled ‘Frongoch’, a reference to the well-known internment camp in North Wales in which O’Connor and nearly two thousand Irish prisoners were detained following the 1916 Rising.

A view of the Moorish-style Palace in Tivoli Gardens, an historic amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark, in about 1910.

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Letter about reporters, Ulster Bank and 100 pounds.

A clipping of tribute poem to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. / Kilkenny Friary by Lily O’Brennan. (Volume page 101).