A typescript book which was written and bound for Desmond Ashbrook by his son-in-law and daughter, Charles and Jane Foster. The volume traces the genealogy of the Flower Family of Castle Durrow in the 17th Century. An inscription inside the cover states that the book was passed on to Presentation Convent Durrow in June 1984. Also includes a leaflet for Arley Hall and Gardens, the ancestral home of the Hon. Michael and Mrs. Flower.
Presentation SistersStephen Rynne, ‘The flight from our country (31,436 souls in 1937) / (being letters between Stephen Rynne, a farmer, and Thomas Kennedy, a townsman, on the cure for rural depopulation) (Dublin, [Social Credit Bureau, c.1939]).
A flier with the text of a republican poem titled ‘The Flag on the G.P.O. / Easter 1917’ by J.J. Walsh. The first two lines of the verse read ‘Why gather the crowd in O'Connell Street? / Why throng all the people there? …’.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Fitzgerald Cup. Father Mathew Feis’. On reverse of the bowl: List of winners from 1974-95.
A draft article titled ‘The First Person Singular Imperative’ written by Tadhg Mac A’Bhaird and dated 19 September 1904.
A copy of Francis MacManus, ‘The fire in the dust / a novel’ (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1950).
A clipping of a report copied from the ‘Daily Mail’ on Éamon de Valera election campaign in East Clare. The clipping is taken the ‘Evening Herald’ (4 October 1917).
A flier titled ‘The Ferrets of Kildare’ referring to the escape of Irish prisoners from the Curragh Camp in County Kildare in 1921. (Volume page 4).
The series is incomplete but there are multiple copies of some editions extant in the file.
Individual (loose) editions:
15 July 1922 (No. 2)-21 July 1922 (No. 6).
7 Aug. 1922 (No. 20)-14 Aug. 1922 (No. 26)
16 Aug. 1922 (No. 28)-26 Aug. 1922 (No. 37)
29 Aug. 1922 (No. 40)
31 Aug. 1922 (No. 43)-1 Sept. 1922 (No. 44)
23 Sept. 1922 (No. 63)
26 Sept. 1922 (No. 65)-29 Sept. 1922 (No. 68).
30 Sept. 1922 (No. 70)-7 Oct. 1922 (No. 76).
10 Oct. 1922 (No. 78)-11 Oct. 1922 (No. 79)
12 Oct. 1922 (No. 80)-17 Oct. 1922 (No. 84).
Bound editions:
26 July 1922-5 Aug. 1922 (Nos. 10-19).
18 Aug. 1922-26 Aug. 1922 (Nos. 30-38).
29 Aug. 1922-7 Sept. 1922 (Nos. 40-49).
2 Sept. 1922-11 Sept. 1922 (Nos. 45-52).
8 Sept. 1922-19 Sept. 1922 (Nos. 50-59).
12 Sept. 1922-15 Sept. 1922 (Nos. 53-56).
16 Sept.-25 Sept. 1922 (Nos. 57-64).
20 Sept.-30 Sept. 1922 (Nos. 60-69).
30 Sept. 1922-6 Oct. 1922 (Nos. 70-79).
'The Fenian' was an Anti-Treaty newspaper providing the republican perspective on the course of Civil War hostilities. The paper warns that ‘insidious attempts have been made within the last few days by the English King’s Provisional Ministers to spread the rumour that a truce had been achieved. Under cover of this they hope to weaken the splendid morale of the republican troops and then attack them when off their guard’. The editions were bound together with a note indicating that they belonged to ‘Rev. Fr. Sebastian [O’Brien OFM Cap.], Church Street’.
'The Fenian (War Issue)', 20 July 1922 (No. 5).