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A flier announcing the prohibitions on the import of biscuits, boot polishes and soap from Britain. The text reads ‘Civilians must help the active forces by striking an economic blow at England’. The article is signed off by Ernest Blythe, Minister for Trade.

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Rosemount
Booterstown
Most Rev. J.C MQuaid
Archbishop's Palace
Drumcondra, Dublin
Your Grace my dear Archbishop
In case Rev. Mother General is
depending on me to express her
(and mine too) appreciation for
Ihe gracious permission of visit-
ing the schools of the Diocese
I wish to carry out her decree
The kind permission granted has
been keenly appreciated all the
the more so as we realize how
you are besieged by requests
I finished the visits to the
shools and am besieging the
Holy Spirit, through His Im-
maculate Spouse and our Queen
to make fruitful the sowings
Your Grace was extremely kind to
me in 1951 when I began this
work and I would be hum-
ly grateful if you would per
mit a short interview before
faving Ireland Is this
possible with your already
heavy and crowded schedule
May I assure your Grace
that no day passes since

An in depth discussion of the novices and their progress starting with Mary Murphy.

A clipping of a memoriam sheet for the republican soldier Liam Lynch who was shot and killed by Free State forces on 10 April 1923. The memoriam includes an extract from Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’.

A printed memoriam sheet for Mick Radford, a republican who was killed by Free State forces on 22 June 1923. The text is signed ‘Larry de Lacy, The Jail, Wexford’

A flier titled ‘In Memoriam Staff Captain Erskine Childers, IRA / Died for the Irish Republic, Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin, 24th November 1922’. (Volume page 30).

A flier with a ballad titled ‘In memoriam / Harry Boland, T.D., shot at Skerries, July 31st, 1922’. The first lines read ‘Harry Boland has died for the Cause that he loved, and our hearts with deep sorrow flows oe’r, In the service of Ireland his life blood has flowed, But his memory shall live evermore ...’.