Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Father James O’Mahony OFM Cap. Perpetual Cup. Feis Maitiú’. The base includes silver shields denoting winners from 1968-1997. Attached sticker indicates that this cup was awarded for a poetry competition.
A copy of ‘The four winds of Eirinn / Poems by Anna MacManus, (“Ethna Carbery.”) / Edited by Seumas MacManus’ (Dublin: fifteenth edition, M.H. Gill & Son, 1905).
A view of the Four Courts, Dublin, from a photograph taken on Wood Quay in about 1945.
The Four Courts as seen from a laneway (‘the Forty Steps’) adjacent to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
A volume of The Forum, Ferns Diocesan Bulletin which features an article on the history of the Presentation Sisters in Enniscorthy by Sr. Josephine.
Presentation SistersErskine Childers, ‘The form and purpose of home rule / a lecture delivered at a public meeting convened by the Young Ireland branch of the United Irish League at the Mansion House, Dublin, on March 2nd, 1912’ (Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 116 Grafton Street, 1912).
An annotated copy of a lecture titled ‘The forest, unemployment, and the health of the soil by which we live’ by John MacKay. An annotation reads ‘written in January 1941’. A later note affirms that the lecture was read posthumously at the Cork College of Commerce on 24 January 1941.
A view of the Ford Factory in Cork in about 1945.
Sister Marie Collins' copy of The Fold Spring 2001 which raises alarm over shortage of priests.
A copy of Alice Meynell, ‘The flower of the mind / a choice among the best poems’ (London: Chatto & Windus, 1907).