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Copy speech made by Terence MacSwiney on the occasion of his election as Lord Mayor of Cork after the assassination of Tomás Mac Curtain. The final page is signed ‘Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne’. MacSwiney noted that the ‘circumstances of the vacancy in the office of Lord Mayor inevitably governed the filling of it; and I come here more as a soldier stepping into the breach than an administrator to fill the post in the municipality’. In Irish and English. With Lord Mayor’s Prayer. A message to Republican prisoners on hunger-strike. The text begins: ‘To my Comrades in Cork. On your 57th day I greet you! …’.

Play scripts and poem texts submitted by participants in the Father Mathew Feis. The plays are 'Cats of Egypt' by T.B. Morris (‘under 17 groups’) and 'The Tangled Web' by Austin Walsh (Immaculate Conception Club, Clondalkin, County Dublin). The file also includes works by Barbara Bingley, Joseph Chiari, William Allingham, and Herbert Gedger.

Draft agreement of John Maher with Jane Revell regarding his tenancy of houses, yards and plots of ground on the south side of North Brunswick Street for the term of 999 years at the yearly rent of £30. Maher refers to the ‘dilapidated state’ of the premises which are ‘likely to be condemned by the Corporation authorities … and also ‘the falling off of the value of property in this neighbourhood caused by the removal of Smithfield Market’. Two drafts.