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Note requesting the school prospectus for a friend.

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Dear Father Prior,
This is just a hurried line to ask you to send me a few prospectuses of Glenstal School when you next write.

A married schoolgirl friend of mine has two boys at school at Ampleforth the 3rd is at Wicklow and will probably leave this summer. She spoke to me of Glenstal but understood it was a preparatory school.

I understand they are considering sending this boy to an Irish school. I shall be seeing her again on Tuesday afternoon; she is to come and see me.

I wonder, will it be Dublin or Galway that will see you next week?

Has Father John heard anything more from Clerys? It is such a long time ago, they find it hard to trace it.

Mother returned the steamer with a letter from Dom Columba for an order of ten cups. If he has heard nothing more from them, I shall arrange for it to be deducted from the bill and settle things up with them.
Remember me to all.
yours in Jesus,
Sr. Mary

The file comprises:
9 Aug. 1922 (no. 1);
12 Aug. 1922 (no. 3);
15 Aug. 1922 (no. 5). 2 copies;
22 Aug. 1922 (no. 7). 2 copies;
1 Sept. 1922 (no. 10). 2 copies;
5 Sept. 1922 (no. 12);
16 Sept. 1922 (no edition number). Title page has a drawing ‘With the IRA (somewhere in Ireland)’ by Constance Markievicz;
17 Sept. 1922 (no. 15). 2 copies;
27 Sept. 1922 (no. 19);
28 Sept. 1922 (no. 20). Title page has a drawing ‘Free Staters in Action’;
1 Oct. 1922 (No. 21). Title page has a drawing ‘With the Dublin Brigade, IRA’ by Constance Markievicz;
8 Oct. 1922 (no. 23). 2 copies;
22 Oct. 1922 (No. 30);
27 Oct. 1922 (No. 33).
The issue of 8 Oct. 1922 is annotated on the reverse ‘G.K. 544 N.C.R., A.F. M. Philips. It was found in an envelope with a manuscript annotation: ‘Rev. Fr. Sebastian [O’Brien OFM Cap.]’.

A collection of street ballad leaflets assembled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965), a Capuchin friar, in 1921. The handbills relate to events in the War of Independence from 1919-21. This contentious period produced its share of controversial literature mainly in the form of leaflets, handbills, ballads and other forms of popular street literature. The treatment of prisoners during the War of Independence was the subject of political and social outrage and was reflected in popular ballads celebrating the lives of Kevin Barry, Patrick Moran, Thomas Traynor and other republican prisoners executed in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin and in other locations following courts martial from 1920-1. Most of the ballads recounted popular stories told in simple metre, and set to (mostly) traditional airs. The ballad titles include:
'Kevin Barry'
'The Bould Black & Tan'
'God Save the Peelers'
'Commandant McKeown'
'My Little Grey Home in Mountjoy'
'Thomas Traynor / Died for Ireland / Mountjoy Prison / April 26 '21'
'Brave sons of Granuaile'
'The Standard of Green, White & Gold / A Song of Truce'
'Latest Hit / If you're Irish We're goin' to Suppress you'