A copy of ‘The Observer’ (10 June 1956). The edition includes coverage of Nikita Khrushchev’s denunciation of Joseph Stalin and his reign of terror in the Soviet Union.
A view of the O’Connell Monument at the southern end of O’Connell Street in Dublin in about 1940.
A copy of Joseph O’Connor, ‘The Norwayman’ (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949).
A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘The North / Partition / Northern Ireland’. The volume contains original letters and draft manuscript and typescript contributions and commentary re the ‘Orange Terror’ article by 'Ultach' (J.J. Campbel) published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943). The file includes letters from Bishop Daniel Mageean, George Noble Plunkett, J.J. Campbell, Eamon Donnelly, Senator David Robinson, Maud Gonne MacBride, Jack B. Yeats (refusing to contribute a commentary on the article), and Sir Shane Leslie. The volume also contains many general newspaper clippings about partition. The volume also includes a printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (1943). The volume includes content mainly from 1941-9 but it also includes some newspaper and magazine clippings from c.1917-1932, particularly relating to the treatment of the Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. The volume is not paginated.
A clipping of an article by A. MacDonnell titled ‘The Young Irelanders’ taken from ‘The bookman / an illustrated monthly journal’. Vol. XXVII, no. 160 (January 1905). Includes profiles (and photographic prints) of W.B. Yeats, Reverend Stopford Brooke, Jane Barlow, George Russell, and George Sigerson.
'The New World' was published in Chicago and claimed to be the ‘largest Catholic newspaper in the United States’. The file contains the issue: 11 Aug. 1916 (vol. xxv, No. 6). The paper contains an article titled ‘How they butchered James Connolly’. (p. 4).
An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'The new terror ... homes raided in the dead of night; women and children terrorised ... These are some fruits of the Treaty. We will break this new terror as we broke the old. Make no doubt about it'.
A copy of ‘The New Spirit of the nation; or, Ballads and songs by the writers of “The Nation.” / containing songs and ballads published since 1845 / edited, with an introduction, by Martin MacDermott’ (London/Dublin/New York: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894).
A newspaper supplement written by Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap. describing the establishment of the Irish Capuchin mission in the Diocese of Baker City, Oregon, following an appeal for help from Bishop Charles J. O’Reilly in 1910. The text describes the journey of the first Irish friars (including Fr. Luke Sheehan and Fr. Casimir Butler) who travelled from Ireland to labour in the ‘Wild West’.
Sheehan, Luke, 1873-1937, Capuchin priestAuthor: Jeremiah Dowling
Publisher: Printed by Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 94-96 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin
Language: English
Journal format: 'New Ireland Review', x (no. 3), Nov. 1898, has an article titled ‘Father Mathew’ by Jeremiah Dowling at pp 140-8.
Printed Franciscan Capuchin Library stamp on front cover.