A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘Fortieth annual report of the managing committee of the Association for the Suppression of Mendicity in Dublin for the year 1857’ (Dublin: Samuel G. Downes, 53 Bishop Street, 1858).
A copy of booklet titled ‘Pictorial review of 1916 / a complete and historically accurate account of the events which occurred in Dublin in Easter week, fully illustrated’ (Dublin: Parkside Press, 37 Grafton Street, [c.1946]).
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘Antiquities of County Louth / Inaugural Address to the County Louth Archaeological Society by John Ribton Garstin’ (Dundalk: William Tempest, printer, 1904). A reprint from the ‘Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society’ Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 1904), pp 5-12.
A bound volume of selected editions of the ‘Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy’. The spine has a gilt title which reads ‘Pamphlets / B 6’. The editions mostly comprise academic papers on various Irish antiquities and monuments and assessments of historical sources. The topics include ‘A calendar of the Register of Archbishop Fleming’ (1912), ‘Four brooches in the library of Trinity College Dublin’ (1915), ‘Classical inscriptions at Shanganagh Castle, County Dublin’ (1925), and ‘The Diocese of Ross and its ancient churches’ (1932). The editions were published by Hodges Figgis & Company in Dublin.
Copies of official correspondence and memorandums relating to the Act of Parliament establishing a new science and art museum in Dublin in 1877. The documents also refer to the museum’s acquisition of its Kildare Street premises. This institution is now the National Museum of Ireland.
A copy of the ‘First Report of the Royal Commission on Irish Public Works / Presented to both Houses of Parliament’ (London, printed by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1887). Includes the main report, its appendices, and the minutes of proceedings, evidence, and index. The report outlines measures pertaining to various infrastructure and public works and proposals for river drainage projects.
George Russell (‘AE’), ‘Ireland and the empire at the court of conscience’ (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1921).
Erskine Childers, ‘Clause by clause / a comparison between ‘The Treaty’ and Document No. 2’ (Dublin: Dublin: printed at the Wood Printing Works, 1922).
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The virtue of temperance and how it concerns our country’ (Dublin: printed by Patrick O’Brien, 46 Cuffe Street, [c.1915]).
Stephen Rynne, ‘The flight from our country (31,436 souls in 1937) / (being letters between Stephen Rynne, a farmer, and Thomas Kennedy, a townsman, on the cure for rural depopulation) (Dublin, [Social Credit Bureau, c.1939]).