A manuscript text titled ‘The significance of Fr. Peter O’Leary’. The text reads ‘He [Ó Laoghaire] visualized an Ireland without a city. The city pained him, and he misjudged it – reading “Sgothbhualadh” you sense that’. The article is likely incomplete.
A draft article titled ‘An tAthair Peadar’. The manuscript provides a short assessment of Peadar Ó Laoghaire’s contribution to Irish language literature. The text was probably compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
Sem títuloThis section contains a small of collection of letters to Patrick Pearse. Many of the letters relate to Pearse’s fundraising trip to the United States from March to June 1914. The purpose of the visit was to raise funds for St. Enda’s School in Dublin and many of the letters are from potential donors and Irish Americans sympathetic to Pearse’s cultural nationalism and his efforts to promote the revival of the Irish language. Other letters relate to the routine management of St. Enda’s and to Pearse’s involvement with the Irish Volunteers.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from Eleanor Rogers Cox, 655 Broadway, New York. The letter refers to an invitation to Pearse speak at a meeting of the Poetry Society of America.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from Harry C. Phibbs, 551 West 149th Street, New York, referring to Pearse’s attendance at the Bunker Hill Club.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from Michael O’Connor, Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, New York, regarding a donation from the Sarsfield Club of Long Island.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from Dr Gertrude B. Kelly, 507 Madison Avenue, New York. 17 Apr. 1914. The letter refers to Pearse’s efforts to fundraise for St. Enda’s School in the United States.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from [Seumas Ó Muirgheasa], 202 43rd Street, New York, re arrangements for a meeting.
A postcard to Patrick Pearse from [S.] Sheehan, Gresham Hotel, Dublin, re directions to ‘get to the College’.
Letter to Patrick Pearse from Anna Frances Levins, New York, regarding arranging a meeting of Pearse with the American Daughters of Ireland at the Waldorf-Astoria.