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A portrait photograph of a elderly lady smoking a pipe in Dublin in about 1945.

A flier titled 'A plea for the Catholic Boy’s Brigade by E.D. Daly'. The flier refers to the good works performed by Boys’ Brigade members in the Church Street area and seeks subscriptions to aid the organisation. It reads: ‘At present Church Street is not quite up to the mark of its energetic past. The sites of several of its rookeries of wickedness are now covered by Police Courts, and by buildings in which Capuchins carry on their work. …. How long this breeding ground of sin and crime existed in the past must be left to imagination. What is certain is that this worst spot of the worst city in Ireland was selected by the Capuchin Order as a place in which to live, beside the poor, and to help them against temptations to crime and intemperance. To anyone who can feel for the poor, and understand evils around them which they do not realise themselves, the way to Church Street from Sackville Street is still like a descent into Hades, if traversed about 8 p.m. at this time of year’. The file contains three copies of the document.

A flier with the text of a ballad titled ‘A Recruiting Come-all-ye’. The ballad derides the recruitment of Irishmen into the British armed forces.

Bishop Edward Maginn, ‘A refutation of Lord Stanley’s calumnies against the Catholic clergy of Ireland / to which is added a pastoral letter to the clergy and faithful of the Diocess of Derry’ (Dublin: James Duffy, 7 Wellington Quay, 1850).

Rev. Michael O’Riordan, ‘A reply to Dr. Starkie’s attack on the managers of national schools’ (Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, [1903]). The preface reads ‘The contents of the following pages appeared week by week as articles in “The Leader”, from about the time of the publication of Dr. Starkie’s Belfast Address to the middle of last May [1903]’.