Publisher: Dublin: P. Wogan Edition/Format: Third Edition Language: English Front cover has gilt engraving ‘Very Rev. T. Mathew’; The title page has a manuscript depiction of the Mathew family coat-of-arms with the initialed monogram of ‘TM’.
A letter from Patrick James Smyth (1823-1885), Auburn Villa, Rathgar, Dublin, introducing James Joseph O’Kelly to Monsieur de Taillon in Caen, France. The letter is endorsed ‘7211’.
Flier from the Property Defence Association noting that agents from the Association have attended forty-five sheriff’s sales of stock and has one hundred and twenty men acting as ‘caretakers’.
Flier promoting the interest of Edward Gibson (1837-1913) to the electors of the Trinity College, Dublin. In 1875, Gibson won a parliamentary by-election in the TCD constituency against an official candidate.
A plate showing an image of a seventeenth-century print of Fr. Francis Nugent OSFC (1569-1635), the founder of the Irish Capuchin Franciscan Province. The plate is by Mayne, Lord Edward Street, Dublin.
An Anti-Treaty Handbill: 'What is an Irregular? An Irregular is one who fights without pay for the old cause which will never die. What is a national soldier? ...'.
The flier refers to the foundation by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC of St. Joseph’s League which was approved by the Most Rev. William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, and provides details of its government and organisation. Article 6 notes that ‘members [are] to wear a badge to distinguish them from other boys. By the wearing of this badge they are expected to avoid the company of wicked boys, and to do all in their power to crush vice of every kind, especially evil speaking in those with whom they have to come in contact with’.
A view of ‘Brookside’ on Lansdowne Road in Claremont, Cape Province, South Africa. The print shows a building used as a residence by the Irish Capuchin friars.