A view of Annestown (in Irish ‘Bun Abha’, meaning ‘river’s end’), a small coastal village in County Waterford, in about 1955. The tower of the Church of Saint John the Baptist is visible in the image. This small-scale rural church was constructed by the Board of First Fruits, an institution of the Church of Ireland, which was established in 1711 to build and improve Anglican churches and rectories in Ireland. The Church of Saint John the Baptist in Annestown dates to about 1822.
Date: 1744 Author: Fr. Silvestro da Milano OSFC Publisher: Milano: nella stamperia di Pietro Antonio Frigerio Full title: 'Annali dell’ ordine de’ frati minori Cappuccini. Appendice al tomo terzo, divisa in due parti / già esposta nell'idioma latino dal padre Fr. Silvestro da Milano annalista generale de’Cappuccini e descritta, ed accresciuta nell'italiana favella da Fr. Giuseppe da Cannobio annalista presentaneo'. Series: Published in two volumes.
An offprint of an article by Fr. Richard Henebry titled ‘An Unpublished Poem by W. English’. The article appeared in the first number of ‘Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie’, a periodical founded in 1897 by Kuno Meyer and Ludwig Christian Stern. A manuscript annotation on the first reads ‘To his brother with the writer’s compliments’.
The file comprises the following editions: An t-Óglác the official organ of the Irish Volunteers: 15 Mar. 1921 (vol. III, no. 1)-15 Apr. 1921 (Vol. III, no. 4); 1 May 1921 (Vol. III, no. 6)-10 June 1921 (Vol. III, no. 12); 24 June 1921 (Vol. III, no. 14); 2 Dec. 1921 (vol. III, no. 37) – 9 Dec. 1921 (vol. III, no. 38); An t-Óglác, the official organ of the army 20 Jan. 1923 (vol. iv, no. 32, new series) – 27 Jan. 1923 (vol., iv, no. 33 new series) An t-Óglác, the army journal 29 May 1926 (vol. iv, no. 20). The concluding edition in the file contains an article titled ‘Four courts and North King St. Area in 1916’ by John J. Reynolds, referring to the activities of Capuchin priests from Church Street during the 1916 Rising. (pp 3-4).
The file contains the following edition of this Catholic national newspaper: 22 Oct. 1948 (Vol. 20, No. 30). The edition carries reports on the celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny and the centenary of the founding of the Friary Church on Walkin Street.
A draft article on the life and work of An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire. The article suggests that ‘an Athair Peadar’s Irish of the People and the autonomous verb have won the day. So, it is not alone for the quantity of his works but for the wide field in which he worked that we have to claim for an Athair Peadar that he is the “Father of Modern Irish”’. The author added ‘He was ordained in 1867, the Fenian year, and his pays his tribute to the Fenian men with the reserve of the Catholic priest reminding us that in O’Donovan Rossa’s paper there was no word of Irish …’. The article appears to be incomplete.
A draft article titled ‘An tAthair Peadar’. The manuscript provides a short assessment of Peadar Ó Laoghaire’s contribution to Irish language literature. The text was probably compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.
'An Stoc' was edited by Tomás Ó Máille (1880-1938). Ó Máille was born in Connemara and was educated in University College Manchester, in Freiburg and later in Berlin. He became professor of Irish studies at University College Galway. Among his published works were 'The language of the annals of Ulster' (1910); 'An Gaoth Aniar' (1920); 'MacDatho' (1927); 'Medb Chriachna' (1934); 'Diarmad Dann' (1936); 'An Béal Beo' (1936). He edited 'An Stoc', which contained Irish poetry, folklore extracts and other forms of cultural revivalist and nationalist literature. 'An Stoc' was published in Galway by Coláiste na h-Iolsgoile. The file contains the following issues: Dec. 1917. Vol. 1, No. 1 Jan. 1918. Vol. 1, No. 2 Feb.-Mar. 1918. Vol. 1, No. 3 Apr.-May 1918. Vol. 1, No. 4. Apr.-May 1920. Vol. 2, No. 10.
