A clipping of a facsimile copy of a ten shilling note issued by the Limerick Soviet. The caption notes that the photograph was published in the ‘Daily Mail’ in 1919. The note carries the inscription around the edges: ‘General Strike Against British Militarism. Limerick April 1919’; and in the centre: ‘The Workers of Limerick promise to pay the bearer ten shillings for The Limerick Trades and Labour Council’. The note is signed by the chairman and treasurer.
An Anti-Treaty propaganda leaflet of a facsimile letter from a Irish Free State Captain, Military Barracks, Dundalk, to Colonel O’Higgins, Dublin Command, re accounts for whiskey which was ‘purchased on the order of General Hogan, and supplied to the firing squads who carried out the executions here’.
Faculties from the Bishop of Raphoe for members of the Capuchin community, Ard Mhuire Friary, Creeslough, County Donegal. The file includes faculties for Fr. Thomas Rocks OFM Cap., Fr. Paul Murphy OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Harrington OFM Cap., Fr. Peter Banks OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Twomey OFM Cap., and Fr. Desmond McNaboe OFM Cap.
A soft-bound volume containing a complete run of this weekly bi-lingual newspaper published to advance literacy in the Irish language. The file contains a complete run of issues from 8 Jan. 1898 (Vol. 1. No. 1)-31 Dec. 1898 (Vol. 2. No. 52). The editor of the newspaper was Eoin MacNeill. An advertisement published in the newspaper noted that complete volumes of 'Fáinne an Lae', bound in cloth (such as this) were available from the publisher: Bernard Doyle, 9 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, for 6s 6d.
An unidentified family group (six standing and five sitting or kneeling). This is an informal outdoor portrait of a family group probably taken in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Photographic print of an unidentified family group. The group includes the father and presumably the eldest son in military uniform. Three younger boys, a mother, and presumably a daughter are also present in the image.
An outdoor group family portrait of six unidentified individuals. The plate is contained within an envelope which has a manuscript annotation of dates from c.1915-27.
A family group around a traditional spinning wheel outside a cottage in rural Ireland in about 1945. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Ireland’s wheel of fortune'.
