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From the Queen agreeing in principle to a request of Dom Francois.
An Anti-Treaty leaflet, deriding Michael Collins and the Free State. It reads: ‘“I would much rather hear Mr. Michael Collins called a traitor by Mr. De Valera than hear myself called a traitor by anyone else.” Lord Birkenhead’.
A view of a bookseller’s stall on Dublin’s Quays in about 1945.
A silver pyx (diameter: 4.8 cm) with the Christogram IHS engraved on cover. The initials ‘TM’ are engraved on case. With silver Holy Oils Stock. The stock has three parts engraved with ‘I, B, C’.
An illustrated poster issued for the candidate, Joseph McGuinness, by his authorised Election Agent, P. J. Halnon, Solicitor, Longford. Printed at the Gaelic Press, 30 Upper Liffey Street, Dublin.
A Sinn Féin poster advocating for the candidacy of Arthur Griffith in the general election of 1918. The text reads ‘Put Him In To Get Him Out / vote for Griffith / the man in jail for Ireland’.
A blank membership card for the Purgatorial Society attached to Holy Trinity Church in Cork.
File relating to James Pearse’s purchase of shares in the People’s Bread Company Limited, 4 Moorgate Street, London. The file includes a memorandum of association and correspondence.
Letter from John Connolly, auctioneer and valuer, to Fr Edmund Comerford CM regarding the buying-out of ground rents.