A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The truth about the army crisis (official) / with a foreward by Major-General Liam Tobin’ ([Dublin]: Issued by the Irish Republican Army Organization, 78A Summerhill, Dublin, [1924]). The pamphlet deals with the ‘mutiny’ of high-ranking officers in the Free State army in 1924. The crisis was provoked by a proposed reduction in army numbers in the immediate post-Civil War period.
A one-page typescript synopsis titled ‘The truth about Nurse Cadden / a play by Don Alwyn’.
A clipping of an article outlining the history of the links between the newly founded Irish Workers’ League and prominent communists. The clipping is taken from ‘The Standard’ (19 August 1949).
Rev. Henry Henderson, ‘The true heir of Ballymore / passages from the history of a Belfast Ribbon Lodge / The dark monk of Feola: adventures of a Ribbon pedlar’ ([Belfast: News-Letter Office, c.1859]).
A pamphlet referring to the redraft of the Treaty by Ėamon de Valera titled a ‘Proposed Treaty of Association between Ireland and the British Commonwealth’ or more commonly known as ‘Document No. 2’, presented to Dáil Eireann in January 1922. Imprint date from p. [7]. Additional text on p. [3] of printed wrapper. The text is printed side by side in columns.
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The Treaty and the original Document No. 2 / clauses set out for comparison. Those of Document No. 2 are the original clauses, not those as revised by Mr. De Valera after the treaty had been signed’ ([Dublin, c.1921]).
A pamphlet and poem reflecting on John Hogan’s marble statue of the Transfiguration. The statue is held in Mount Argus Passionist Monastery in Harold’s Cross in Dublin. The poem asks the reader to remember the ‘weed-grown, cold [and] forgotten’ grave of the sculptor in the cemetery. The poetic tribute was written by John Clarke (1868-1934), a County Antrim-born nationalist and journalist who wrote numerous articles on Gaelic cultural revivalist subjects, often using the penname ‘Benmore’.
Draft article by Sidney Z. Ehler titled ‘The Tragedy of Czechoslovakia under the Communist Rule’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969).
A postcard print of the church tower at Mount Melleray (Cistercian) Abbey in County Waterford.
The clock tower of the Anglican Church of St. Anne, containing the famous 'Bells of Shandon', in Cork.