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A bound volume containing publishing works by Fr. Michael O’Hickey. Includes some clippings and manuscript additions. The inside front cover has a print of Fr. O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’. A later annotation on the opening page reads ‘Very rare / unique’. Printed title to spine reads ‘Writings of Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’. The volume includes:
• ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916).
• ‘Primary schools and their management / by Sacerdes and Sagart’ ([privately printed], 1907). 64 pp.
• ‘The True National Idea by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey / A lecture delivered in the hall of the Catholic Commercial Club, Dublin, on November 3rd, 1898, under the auspices of the Central Branch of the Gaelic League’. (Dublin, Gaelic League Pamphlets, Third Edition, 1898). 8 pp.
• ‘The Irish language movement: its genesis, growth and progress / by Rev. Michael P. O’Hickey’ ([Dublin, Gaelic League, 1902]). 15 pp.
• ‘The nationalisation of Irish education / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey’. ([Dublin, Gaelic League, 1902]). 23 pp.
• ‘An Irish university, or else / by Rev. Michael P. O’Hickey. (Waterford, M.H. Gill & Son, 1909). 20 pp.
• ‘The Irish language and Irish intermediate education / VII / Dr. O’hickey’s reply to Dr. Mahaffy, Dr. Gwynn and Dr. Atkinson (Dublin: Gaelic League Pamphlets – no. 17, [c.1902]). 14 pp.
• ‘The Future of Irish in the National Schools / by Rev. M.P. O’Hickey’ (Dublin: Gaelic League Pamphlets – no. 9, 1900). 12 pp.
• ‘The Golden Age of the Irish Church / A lecture by Rev. Michael P. Hickey’ (Glasgow, P. Donegan & Co., 1890). 32 pp.
• ‘Wanted – an Irish university; also essays on university and kindred subjects / Collected and edited by an Irish priest’ (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1909). 128 pp.
• ‘Further documents bearing on the dismissal of Rev. Dr. O’Hickey from the Irish Chair of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth’. ([Privately printed, c.1909]).
• ‘Memorandum dealing with the constitution, history and authority of the Board of Trustees of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth: with some account of the visitors, past and present’. ([Privately printed, c.1909]). 31 pp.

The series contains a large collection of published works and biographical accounts dealing with the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The collection also includes works relating to various teetotal and temperance movements in Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Many of the publications listed below are connected with the temperance revival of the late nineteenth century exemplified by the foundation of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association by Fr. James Cullen SJ in 1898. The works are listed in chronological order by date of publication.

Fliers setting out the aims and objectives of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union. Reference is also made to the work done by the Association in the election campaigns of 1885 and 1886. The flier dated October 1887 provides a list of selected names from the 1886 subscriptions list to the organisation.

Series includes how the Radharc film by RTE [Radio Teillfís Éireann] was made; newspaper cuttings describing the film; correspondence with Mother de Sales Gleeson, South Presentation Convent, Cork, concerning ordering and paying for the film; preparations for the celebration of Éigse Naineo Nógla, in Blarney, County Cork; the preparations for Aonach Átha Cliath; James Barry’s portrait of Nano Nagle; Desmond Kyne’s icon of Nano Nagle; video ‘Not Words but Deeds’, by ICON Communications, Limited; and plays and pageants which were written in various Presentation Schools in Ireland. This series is arranged in 12 files.

Creator: Tertiary Order of the Carmelite Brotherhood, St. Joseph's, Drumcondra, Brother Vincent Corcoran: The Irish Press

This file contains an extract from a book naming some of the institutions which deal with the blind in Ireland and a newspaper article discussing the creation of a training course for the blind.

Aloysius Gentili, Giovanni Bozzetti, Denis Gwynn, Omeath, Louth, Clonmore and Reynolds Limited

A collection of publications regarding the life of Aloysius Gentili, Rosminian missionary, including Aloysius Gentili of the Fathers of Charity by Giovanni Bozzetti, Father General of the Institute of Charity, Aloysius Gentili of the Fathers of Charity 1801-1848 by Denis Gwynn, Professor in University College Cork, and Pioner Priest and Missionary by an unknown author. Also enclosed is a letter from Clonmore & Reynolds Limited, publishers, to Hugh MacFadden, Provincial of the Irish Province of the Institute of Charity, regarding a publication on the life of Gentili.

Rosminian Order

This sub-fond is divided into three files and one item. The first file contains correspondence from Father J. M. Cronin to Denis Gwynn regarding edits to Denis Gwynn's work. The second file contains two articles written by Denis Gwynn on the topic of Catholicism in England. The third file contains publications regarding Gentili and other holy places and people. The final item is a red folder containing material related to people who have prayed to Gentili.

Creator: Alphonsus Curran, George Carton, Antonio Rosmini, Steven Jarvis, Dennis Kamalick, Pope Gregory XVI

A series of publication found within the American collection concerning the history of the Rosminkans in America and the more general history of the congregation.