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A clipping of an article by Daniel O’Boyle recalling Éamon de Valera’s journey to Derry to speak at St. Columba’s Hall in support of republican candidates in 1924. The clipping is taken from the ‘Derry Journal’ (27 July 1945).

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, ‘How Ireland ought to receive the Land Act / A letter to the Very Rev. Canon Doyle, P.P.’. (Dublin: James Duffy & Sons, 15 Wellington Quay, 1881).

Your Grace my dear Archbishop
How tenderly Providence directed you in
allowing me that interview yesterday!
,want to tell you how profoundly
grateful I am to your Grace for your
time your sympathy and above all for
the prayers for my dear sister in law
It will be no smoll comfort for my
dear brother to learn that be too has
your holy prayers as he faces the
responsibility of fathering and mother
ing his five children.
Your comforting words helped me much
and I know our Lady will mother these
children
Your assurance regarding Edenmore
face me great relief, greater courage.
I
am becoming more deeply indebted
to
you Your Grace and this indebtedness can
only be repaid by fervent daily prayer.
Humbly asking your blessing I beg to remain
Most respectfully in Mary
Your grateful child
S.Mary de Pazzi

A clipping of an article on Howth Castle in County Dublin. The article includes an illustration of the castle.

A ticket for the Hill of Howth Tramway, operated by the Great Northern Railway Company, purchased on 24 April 1916, the first day of the Easter Rising. The ticket was purchased by the family of T. Molloy and his description conveys his personal memories of that day. It reads ‘Ticket issued for Easter Monday 1916 to one of a family going to Howth for the day. Coming to Howth Station to return home in the evening great crowds of people were told that no trains were running as there was trouble in the city. I, at the age eight, with my seven-year-old brother, & my father & mother, who carried another two-year-old brother, had, like many others, to walk home that night’.