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‘In Memoriam Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellows, Richard Barrett, Joseph McKelvey, died 8 Dec. 1922’

Souvenir publication for the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, 1 Aug. 1915. 2nd edition. Includes the text of Pearse’s graveside oration and other contributions by Thomas Mac Donagh, Seamus O’Sullivan, and James Connolly’s statement on The Citizen Army.

Souvenir programme for Heuston & Colbert Commemoration Aeridheacht, Croke Park, 12 May 1918. The event was organised in aid of Fianna Ėireann – Battalion II.

Note from Military Headquarters, Parkgate Street, to Dublin Metropolitan Police. The note reads: ‘Please tell the Franciscan Fathers at Church Street that the two men they wish to see at Kilmainham Detention Prison should be seen by them tonight’. Printed heading reads: ‘Dublin Metropolitan Police Telephone’. Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke were executed on the morning of 3 May

Letter from Major Gerald Henry Pomeroy Colley, Headquarters, Irish Command, Parkgate, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., declaring that he is ‘glad to say your kind offices will not be required to night’. Colley was referring to Fr. Aloysius’ attendance to imprisoned rebel leaders.

Typescript copy of last letter of Capt. Seán Mac Aodha [Seán Heuston] to his sister, ‘an Irish nun’.

Correspondence between Thomas W. Bewley, secretary, W. & R. Jacob & Co. Ltd., and Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. regarding a cheque for £25 given by the directors of Jacobs to the Capuchins as a mark of appreciation ‘for the deep sense of thankfulness that our Factory was spared from serious injury during the time of the recent rebellion’. Includes a copy reply from Fr. Aloysius returning the said cheque. He writes ‘Any services that I may have rendered during the recent sad crisis were such as … any other priest in the same circumstances would render’. Fr. Aloysius suggests that the cheque should more fittingly be sent to the Lord Mayor’s Fund for the Relief of Distress.

Photographic postcard print of the study hall of St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, founded by Patrick Pearse.

Letter from Brian Ó hUigínn [Brian O’Higgins], Birmingham Prison, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Ca., sending on his best wishes. In Irish.

Declaration of Muriel MacDonagh’s (wife of Thomas MacDonagh) reception into the Catholic Church. It reads: ‘I Fr. Aloysius OSFC declare that … I have this eighteenth day of April 1917 received into the Catholic Church Mrs. Muriel MacDonagh observing the prescribed rites and ceremonies’. The document is signed by Muriel Mary MacDonagh.