A flier for a performance of ‘Easter 1916’, a play by Montagu Slater, an English poet and playwright. The play covers the period from the 1913 lock-out to the1916 Rising by chronicling the life of James Connolly described as ‘Ireland’s first Socialist martyr’. A performance of Slater’s play was produced by the Left Theatre Company at the La Scala Theatre in Dublin in April 1936.
A card advertising an exhibition of the artwork of Fr. Jack Hanlon in the Galerie du theatre de poche in Brussels in Belgium. A manuscript annotation on the card reads ‘best wishes, Jack’.
A flier promoting a production of John Millington Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin in July 1953. The production was staged by Cyril Cusack (1910-1993) with the actor himself in the title role (as Christy Mahon). The cast also included the Belfast-born actress Siobhán McKenna (as Pegeen Mike), with appearances by Jack McGowran, Walter Macken, and Cyril Cusack’s wife Maureen.
A clipping of an article on the ‘Lusitania’ memorial sculpture by Jerome Connor in Cobh, County Cork. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (15 February 1953).
Photographic print of Fr. Senan Dooley OFM Cap. and two other friars fishing on the beach at Sheephaven Bay near Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. An manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print also makes reference to Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap.
A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., declining to write anything on 'this sad Irish question and the cruelties that go with it’.
A clipping of a profile of James Larkin Junior (better known as ‘Young Jim’ Larkin), the eldest son of the trade unionist and socialist ‘Big Jim’ Larkin. The article traces the younger Larkin’s journey from what is called his previous ‘extreme left’ communism to respected Labour Party parliamentarian. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (18 October 1952).
