Letters from staff of The Irish Press including Tim Pat Coogan (1967-71) and The Sunday Press re newspaper copy and the placing of advertisements.
A copy of ‘The Irish Poems of Arthur Perceval Graves / Songs of the Gael / A Gaelic Story-telling’ (Dublin: Maunsel & Company, 1908).
A copy of J.G. Swift MacNeill, ‘The Irish Parliament / what it was, and what it did’ (London: Cassell & Company, 3rd edition, 1886).
A copy of ‘The Irish Packet’, Vol. III, No. 78 (25 March 1905). ‘The Irish Packet’ was a weekly magazine published by the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ newspaper from their offices in Dublin. It commenced publication in October 1903 with the final edition appearing in early 1910. ‘The ‘Irish Packet’s’ sole editor during its run was Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (1849-1933), a nationalist politician, journalist, lawyer, and later a county court judge. A notable feature of the periodical was the publication of work by Irish women writers including Alice Furlong, Eleanor Knott, Katharine Tynan, Rosa Mulholland, and Alice Milligan.
A copy of ‘The Irish Military Guide’ (Dublin: printed by Ernest Manico Limited, 12 D’Olier Street, February 1903). The cover has a portrait image of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Ireland.
A copy of ‘The Irish Language and Irish Intermediate Education / V. Foreign testimony’ (Dublin: The Gaelic League, [c.1900]).
Sir Geroge Errington, ‘The Irish land question, a problem in practical politics / A letter to the Right Hon. H.C.E. Childers, M.P., Secretary of State for War, from George Errington, M.P. (County Longford) (Dublin: Gill & Son, 1880).
William Maccombie, ‘The Irish land question practically considered: a letter to the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone’ (Aberdeen, D. Wyllie & Son, 1869).
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The Irish land bill / speech delivered by the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone in the House of Commons on his motion introducing the Land Law (Ireland) Bill, April 7th, 1881’ ([London]: National press agency, limited, 1881).
A copy of Shane Leslie, ‘The Irish issue in its American aspect / a contribution to the settlement of Anglo-American relations during and after the great war’ (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1918).