A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘Speech of William Smith O’Brien, Esq., M.P. / on the causes of discontent in Ireland, delivered in the House of Commons, on the 4th July, 1843’ (Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 21 Nassau Street, 3rd edition, 1852). Includes a letter from William Smith O’Brien to T. O’Malley dated 23 December 1843 (pp [57]-72).
Two copies of the ‘Speech of Roger Casement from the dock / Executed in Pentonville Prison, August 3rd, 1916.’ (Dublin: published by Fergus O’Connor, 1916).
A report of speech by the Bishop of Limerick, a self-proclaimed nationalist and land-reformer, referring to contemporary political opinion. Alone of all the Irish Hierarchy, O’Dwyer was the only one to support the leaders of the 1916 Rising. A sentence beginning ‘Ireland will never be content as a province’ is underlined in the text. With 'Irish Emigrants and English Mobs / Letter from the Bishop of Limerick' (10 Nov. 1915).
A reprint of a speech made by Edward O’Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick, in 1916 thanking the city for bestowing the honour of freedom of the City of Limerick on him and calling for an end to British rule in Ireland; he indicates his support of the Easter Rising. The tone is strongly nationalist throughout.
Vincenzo de Vit, Rome
Booklet containing a speech by Vincenzo de Vit, historian and Rosminian, titled 'If animals have intelligence and therefore can have any language'.
Specifications, contracts and bills of costs of Robert Walker, architect, 17 South Mall, to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910), Commissary General, for the construction and furnishing of the library and reception room wing of the new Capuchin Friary attached to Holy Trinity Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork. The total cost of the building work was noted as £2,593 6s 9d.
Specifications from E.J. Creed, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, J. Treacy & Co., 17 Stoneybatter, Dublin, and J. Seward, 26 New Ireland Road, Rialto, Dublin, for internal and external painting works of the president’s room, billiard room, toilet, return room, staircases and other parts of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street. With a manuscript draft of the said specification and contract.
Specifications and estimates for the installation of electric lighting in the Capuchin Friary and Church, Kilkenny, by Keatinge & Gaule, electrical engineers and contractors, 126 The Quay, Waterford, and Louis J. Lawless, consulting engineers, 19 Percy Place, Dublin.
Specification, possibly by Ashlin & Coleman, architects, for alterations to the doorway of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The specification outlines the processes, methods, and materials to be employed in the re-construction of the porch and of other alterations to the windows, staircase, and galleries of the church. The specification is incomplete. See also CA CS/2/5/17.
Specification of works for the erection and completion of the Capuchin novitiate extension on Pennyfeather Lane by Sylvester Bourke, architect, 79 High Street, Kilkenny. With a similar specification by the architect for work on internal alterations to the Friary to accommodate the novitiate building. With Bourke’s statement of account of professional fees associated with the project (£355 15s 11d). The total cost of the work is stated as £3,637 7s 6d.