Inscribed on the bowl: ‘McCullough Trophy for Senior Solo Open Wind Competition. Father Mathew Feis 1959. Presented by McCullough’s Ltd., Dawson Street, Dublin’. The base includes inscriptions indicating winners from 1959-95.
Includes; details of Canon Law as regards "local conditions", "The Plenary Council & [and] its decrees- in general", "The decrees of Maynooth Plenary Council 1956 as they affect religious".
File includes diagrams concerning genealogy; letters from Sr. M. Ligouri, Presentation Convent, Thurles, County Tipperary to Sr. Rosario Allen, South Presentation Convent, Cork, concerning the history of the Mathew family; the Chichester family in England; document on Bicentenary of Thurles Education; Nano Nagle’s grandfather’s will photocopy of Nano Nagle’s grandfather’s will; brief history of Inch House and the death notice of Nano Nagle’s mother from ‘The Dublin Journal’, January 1747.
Presentation Sisterswritings on the Catholic Church's role in the State.
Maire MacEgan, ‘The Marvels at Kerrytown’ (Dublin: Bray Printing Company, [c.1947]).
A complete copy of 'The Tatler and Bystander', 18 Feb. 1948, which includes an article (and photographic print) re the wedding in London of Pieter Stewart Bam (1914-2001) and Margaret Agnes Kitson. A manuscript annotation notes that ‘Pieter Stewart Bam is the son of the former owner of Ards House’.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Marian Arts Society Father Mathew Féis Perpetual Challenge Cup’. The bowl is also inscribed with a list of winners from 1962-97.
A clipping of an appreciation of Douglas Hyde written by Daniel Corkery. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (13 July 1949).
A flier with the text of satirical ballad titled ‘The Man from the “Morning Post”’. To be sung to the air of ‘When Irish eyes are smiling’.
Timothy Harrington MP, ‘The Maamtrasna massacre / impeachment of the trials … with appendix containing report of trials and correspondence between Most Rev. Dr. M’Evilly and the Lord Lieutenant’ (Dublin: Nation Office, 70 Middle Abbey Street, 1884)