A flier referring to the imprisonment of the leaders of the Dublin Unemployed Association in Mountjoy Jail and asking workers to protest to secure their release. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the flier reads ‘The meeting on Sunday 6th was attended by a few important men from “The Irish Workers’ League” including Mr Furlong and Mr O’Riordan’.
A clipping of an article by Gabriel Fallon criticising the protests which marked the appearance of Orson Welles at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Fallon repudiates the actions of the Catholic Cinema and Theatre Patrons’ Association who organized the protests. The clipping is taken from ‘The Standard’ (4 January 1952).
A clipping of a report on the conferral of the freedom of Dublin upon Archbishop Gerald O’Hara. It is noted in the article that O’Hara will soon leave Ireland to take up the position of Apostolic Delegate to Britain. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Independent’ (28 July 1954).
Draft short story by Lochlinn MacGlynn titled ‘Duck for luck’. Ink-stamped ‘Irish Features Agency, 42 Dawson Street, Dublin’.
A view of the small village of Dugort (also known as Doogort) on Achill Island off the coast of County Mayo on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard.
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
A scene near the village of Duleek in County Meath in about 1930.
A copy of a leaflet titled ‘Dumps and Miss Mary MacSwiney’ (Place of publication not stated, [c.1923]). The leaflet refers to hidden arms dumps, the possibility of a ceasefire, the Anglo-Irish Treaty and Mary MacSwiney’s speech. The text reads ‘According to her version of the Irregular position, the “Cease fire!” order means nothing permanent. It is a device merely to secure, if possible, a breathing space during which to prepare for the renewal of the attack upon the people’.
This record is part of the list of all the missions preached by the Passionist Fathers in St. Patricks Province (Ireland and Scotland), from 1927 up until 1965. It is just an electronic list with no physical counterpart. It has been made available to aid research into the Passionists.
Correspondence with Dun Laoghaire Corporation.