An Anti-Treaty leaflet and off-print concerning conditions in Kilkenny Jail, the murder of Sean Edwards in Kilkenny, and the murder of Maurice Condon, an unarmed prisoner in Clonmel Town Hall.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Father James O’Mahony OFM Cap. Perpetual Cup. Feis Maitiú’. The base includes silver shields denoting winners from 1968-1997. Attached sticker indicates that this cup was awarded for a poetry competition.
A view of the Four Courts, Dublin, from a photograph taken on Wood Quay in about 1945.
The Four Courts as seen from a laneway (‘the Forty Steps’) adjacent to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
A volume of The Forum, Ferns Diocesan Bulletin which features an article on the history of the Presentation Sisters in Enniscorthy by Sr. Josephine.
Presentation SistersErskine Childers, ‘The form and purpose of home rule / a lecture delivered at a public meeting convened by the Young Ireland branch of the United Irish League at the Mansion House, Dublin, on March 2nd, 1912’ (Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 116 Grafton Street, 1912).
An annotated copy of a lecture titled ‘The forest, unemployment, and the health of the soil by which we live’ by John MacKay. An annotation reads ‘written in January 1941’. A later note affirms that the lecture was read posthumously at the Cork College of Commerce on 24 January 1941.
A view of the Ford Factory in Cork in about 1945.
A typescript book which was written and bound for Desmond Ashbrook by his son-in-law and daughter, Charles and Jane Foster. The volume traces the genealogy of the Flower Family of Castle Durrow in the 17th Century. An inscription inside the cover states that the book was passed on to Presentation Convent Durrow in June 1984. Also includes a leaflet for Arley Hall and Gardens, the ancestral home of the Hon. Michael and Mrs. Flower.
Presentation SistersStephen Rynne, ‘The flight from our country (31,436 souls in 1937) / (being letters between Stephen Rynne, a farmer, and Thomas Kennedy, a townsman, on the cure for rural depopulation) (Dublin, [Social Credit Bureau, c.1939]).