A copy of A.J. Cronin, ‘Beyond this place’ (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1953).
A copy of P.A.O. Neymo, ‘Similitudes: or, the Israelites and the Irish’ (Galway: Printed at the ‘Express’ Office, [1856]). The text explores the purported similarities in the manners, customs, and shared historical experiences of the Irish and Jewish peoples.
A copy of ‘Der Weg / Monatshefte zur Kulturpflege und zum Aufbau’, 4 Jahrgang (1950). The edition carries an illustrated article on Ireland.
A copy of ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, With all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it. / In three partitions. / With their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut up / by Democritus Junior’ (London: William Tegg & Co., MDCCCXLIX [1849]).
A copy of ‘Lisheen: or, The test of the spirits / by P.A. Sheehan / with a foreword by J. B. Morton’ (Dublin: Clonmore and Reynolds Ltd., [1950]). The first page is signed by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap and is dated 31 August 1951.
A copy of Peter F. Anson, ‘The caravan pilgrim’ (London: Heath Cranton Ltd., 1938). The book contains fifty-six illustrations by the author.
A copy of Monica Baldwin, ‘I leap over the wall / A return to the World after twenty-eight years in a Convent’ (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950). A clipping of a review of the book taken from ‘The Tidings’ (27 January 1950) is pasted onto the inside front cover. Monica Baldwin (1893-1975) was a niece of former United Kingdom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. She lived as a nun for twenty-eight years before deciding to leave religious life.
A copy of ‘A priest in Russia and the Baltic by Charles Bourgeois SJ / With an introduction by Sir David Kelly, translated from the French by the Earl of Wicklow’ (Dublin: Clonmore and Reynolds, [1953]).
Abstract of title of Joseph Empson Esq. to the house and premises on Walkin Street commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’, parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny City. The abstract commences with a recital of a lease (dated 8 Apr. 1769) by William Colles to George Chapman of the said house for three lives at the yearly rent of £14 10s (see CA KK/2/1/1/1/1). The abstract concludes with a reference to an assignment of lease (dated 5 May 1893) by Frederick Reynell Pack to Joseph Empson Esq. of the said house and premises for ever at the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d. Endorsed on title page: ‘Abstract prepared on the sale by Joseph Empson Esq. to Reverend F.M Neary and Reverend Thomas O’Connor completed by conveyance dated 1 Aug. 1895. Joseph Empson Esq., 1st part, Mrs M.H. Doxey, 2nd part, Rev. F.M Neary OSFC and another, 3rd part’.
Conveyance from Joseph Empson Esq., Glenageary, Kingstown, County Dublin (with the approval of Memmette H. Doxey, personal representative of the late Arthur Joshua Boyd) to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC and Fr. F.M. Neary OSFC, Roman Catholic clergymen, Walkin Street, Kilkenny of the house and concerns on Walkin Street formerly known by the name of ‘The Munster Arms’ in consideration of £300 and subject to the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d.