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William Smith ‘The history of the lives, acts, and martyrdom of those bishops, fathers, and doctors of the primitive church’ (London, 1721). The text includes a series of woodcuts illustrating the lives of the early Christian martyrs. Includes illustrations of Saint Stephen (acknowledged as the first Christian martyr who was stoned to death), Saint Ignatius of Antioch (devoured by lions in the Colosseum), Saint Polycarp (a disciple of the Apostle John who was burned at the stake), Saint Dionysius the Areopagite (the woodcut likely confuses Dionysius the Areopagite with Saint Dionysius or Denis of Paris. It was the latter who was beheaded by the sword in the third century), and finally, Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon (the precise circumstances of his death are not fully documented, but it is widely believed he died as a martyr in the late 2nd century).

Fr. Stephen Moloney O.Cist, ‘The History of Mount Melleray Abbey’ (Cork: Paramount Printing House, 1952).

An illustration of ‘the Hermit’s Cell’ built by Father Jerome Hawes in the Mount Alvernia Hermitage on Cat Island in the Bahamas.

A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘“The hawk o’ the hill-top” / Cumann Chuimhneachain Ui Dhonnabhain Rosa’ ([Skibbereen]: Cumann Chuimhneachain Ui Dhonnabhain Rosa, an Sciobairin [c.1946]). Includes Pearse’s funeral oration and poems by Alice Milligan and Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa.