A leaflet published by Cumann na mBan, 27 Dawson Street, Dublin, referring to the life of Liam Mellows (1892-1922), an Irish republican executed during the Civil War.
A leaflet published by Cumann na mBan, 27 Dawson Street, Dublin, referring to Kevin Barry, sentenced to death for his part in a republican operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. The item has a photographic print of Kevin Barry on the front cover.
File containing photographic prints of the Stewart-Bam residence at Ards House, Creeslough, County Donegal. These are images of the residence (and former owners) before the Capuchin friars took possession of Ards House in 1930. Some of the prints were reproduced in 'A history of Ards' (1991) by Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. The file includes:
• Copy print of the gardens at Ards House in 1859. Fr. David notes that this photograph was taken by David Knox (1821-1895).
• Sir Pieter von Blommenstein Bam in the uniform of a Lieutenant Colonel during the Boer War in South Africa, c.1900.
• The staff of Ards House in 1906. The photograph is annotated on the reverse with the names of the male and female servants.
• Servants and staff welcoming the newly married Ena Dingwell Tasca Stewart-Bam and Sir Pieter von Blommenstein Bam (d. 20 Dec. 1928) at Ards House in 1910. The smaller copy of the print has the following annotation: ‘Taken over 20 years ago, at some kind of reception given to the Stewards by his tenants xx – Sir Peter and Lady Stewart. Arrow on photograph points to present gardener (W. Barr)’.
• An original print of a group with two jarveys outside Ards House in about 1910.
• Copy print of a sketch map of the Ards Estate Home Farm Offices, the property of A.J.R. Stewart.
• Ena Dingwell Tasca Stewart-Bam on the front stairway in Ards House in c.1910.
• A woman with a young child (presumably tenants) outside a cottage on the Ards Estate.
A flier noting the establishment of a representative body in London to assist the work of the Emergency Committee in Dublin. The document notes that ‘in many parts of Ireland, owing to the state of terrorism which exists, persons who endeavoured to assert their legal rights cannot procure, except from great distance, the commonest necessaries of life, and are obliged to perform for themselves and families the most menial offices’. The flier expounds on the work of the Emergency Committee in assisting landowners and asks for financial assistance to aid their work.
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The state and the language / an English version of the presidential address of Ernest Blythe to Comhdháil Naísiúnta na Gaeilge, 3 December, 1949’ ([Dublin]: Foilseacháin Naisiúnta, [1949]).
A clipping of a review of the first edition of ‘Bonaventura’ published in ‘The Standard’ (16 June 1937).
File includes accounts of aspects of the Spirituality of Nano Nagle such as, ’The Spirit of Nano Nagle’, the quality of her response, her humility, poverty of spirit, teacher of the word, courage, joy, freedom, openness, humility, by various Sisters including Sr. Mary O’ Brien, Bandon, Sr. M. Imelda [Lawlor, South Presentation Convent, Cork] and Sr. Carmel Kennefick, [Crosshaven, County Cork]; reflections on Presentation Spirituality by Sr Joyce Meyer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, U.S.A.; and Sr. Raphael Consedine; the Spirituality of Nano Nagle as revealed in her letters by Sr. Brigid Kavanagh pbvm; and Enter into the presentation energy spiral into a shared vision of Nano today by Sr Raphael Consedine.
Presentation SistersThe spires of the Church of Ireland Cathedral of Saint Fin Barre as seen from the Sunday's Well district in Cork.
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The speeches of Denis Caulfeild Heron, Q.C. / in the cases of the Queen v. Captain M’Clure and others / the Queen v. J.F.X. O'Brien / the Queen v. Captain Patrick Joseph Condon and Dominic O’Mahony’ (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867).
A copy of 'The Spark' of 23 April 1916 (Vol. III, no. 64).