A photographic postcard print captioned ‘Learning Irish Dancing at Ring College’ (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. Coláiste na Rinne was established in 1905 and officially recognised as an Irish language summer school in 1907. The principal founders of the college were Pádraig Ó Cadhla (1875-1948), an organiser for Conradh na Gaeilge in the locality, and Richard Henebry (1863-1916), also known as Risteard de Hindeberg, a Waterford-born priest, Irish language scholar and traditional music collector.
A photograph of the Irish delegation in London for negotiations with British officials. The group are from left to right John Whelan Dulanty, Irish High Commissioner, Seán Lemass, and Dr James Ryan.
A flier from the Irish Drapers’ Assistants Association (IDAA) dated March 1906. The IDAA was founded by Michael O’Lehane (1873-1920), a Cork-born trade unionist. Unlike the more traditional trade unions O’Lehane was prepared to recruit women members. Out of a total effective membership of 4,000 in 1914, 1,400 IDAA members were women. It is noted in the flier that 40% of drapery employees in Dublin were female. The main objective of the IDAA was a reduction in the working hours per week. Reference is also made in the leaflet to the unhealthy working conditions endured by drapery employees and the risk particularly from tuberculosis.
A leaflet with the text of a letter from Edward Thomas O’Dwyer, the Bishop of Limerick, to the editor of the ‘Munster News’ dated 10 November 1915. The text reads ‘the treatment which the poor Irish emigrant lads have received at Liverpool is enough to make any Irishman's blood boil with anger and indignation. What wrong have they done to deserve insults and outrage at the hands of a brutal English mob? They don't want to be forced into the English Army, and sent to fight English battles in some part of the world’.
Photographic reproductions of maps from the Botanical Society of the British Isles used to illustrate an article by Fergus J O’Rourke titled ‘Irish Fauna’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1973).
An image of a large group of Irish pilgrims at an audience with Pope Pius XII (1876-1958) at Castel Gandolfo just outside Rome on 20 September 1953. The pilgrims are members of the Third Order of St. Francis, a religious fraternity of lay men and women attached to the Franciscan Friary on Merchants’ Quay in Dublin. Several Franciscan friars (Order of Friars Minor) can be seen in the image. The individual (with the spectacles) immediately to the right of Pius XII is William MacNeely (1889-1963), the Bishop of Raphoe from 1923 until 1963.
A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on the spine which reads ‘Recent Irish History’. The volume is a ‘Walker’s Century Scrap & Newscutting Volume’. The content is wide ranging and includes numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, some original photographs, fliers, ephemera, and pasted-in content relating primarily to the Irish Revolution and partition. The volume also includes many documents relating to the anti-Treaty interest during the Civil War. Many clippings of obituaries are also present in the volume. An alphabetical index of individuals (and some events) referred to in the documents is present in the opening pages of the volume. The volume is paginated. The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following: • William O’Brien • Bishop Edward O’Dwyer • Éamon de Valera • Thomas Ashe • Terence MacSwiney • Arthur Griffith • Liam Mellows • Roger Casement • Kilmainham Jail • Seán Treacy • Elizabeth O’Farrell • Mount St. Benedict, Gorey, County Wexford • Kevin Barry • Julia Grenan • Katharine O’Shea • President de Valera’s view on the Boundary Commission (1924) • Michael Collins • Archbishop Daniel Mannix • Erskine Childers • Cathal Brugha • Douglas Hyde • Senator David Robinson • Vere Foster • Alfred O’Rahilly • Patrick John Little • Arthur Clery • Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO • John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair. (His departure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1915). • Hugo Flinn • Fr. Peter Yorke • ‘Proposed terms of settlement’ (typescript draft, 7 May 1923) • ‘Behind stone walls’. Refers to the continued imprisonment of republicans by the Free State government during the Civil War. • Niall Mac Giolla Bhrighde (Neil McBride) • Voting paper for the ‘Masonic Orphan Boys’ School Election – November 1942’ • ‘Propaganda’ / an address delivered by the auditor Louis V. Nolan at the solicitors buildings, Four Courts, 27 October 1942 • ‘Leo O’Brien / His life in service in the movement for Ireland’s Independence’. For more information on Leo O’Brien see https://www.irishcatholic.com/fighting-for-irelands-freedom-drove-me-mad-claimed-convicted-murderer/ • T. J. Kiernan • ‘Memorandum of Ambulance work & efforts for peace’ by John P. Homan (d. 1944), Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. The document refers to his work with St. John’s Ambulance during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin in June-July 1922. Mention is made of his interactions with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and the friar’s efforts to secure a cessation of hostilities. • An original pamphlet titled ‘Who is the real foe of the Irish / (by Hugh O’Neill)’ [c.1917]. 11 pp.
A bound volume with a manuscript title on the spine which reads ‘Irish history’. The content of the volume is varied and includes newspaper clippings, photographs, printed fliers, and original ephemera relating primarily to the Irish Revolution. The volume pages are not paginated. The volume includes clippings, documents, photographs, ephemera, and references to the following: • Letters from Piaras Béaslaí and Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’). • Clippings relating to the 1916 Rising and War of Independence. • The funeral of Thomas Ashe. • Photographic print of the visit of King Edward VII to the Phoenix Park racecourse, Dublin (April 1904). • Michael Davitt. • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. • Erskine Childers. • Patrick Holohan. • Archbishop John D’Alton. • The Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. • Numerous original fliers, leaflets and handbills relating to the War of Independence and later the anti-Treaty interest during the Civil War. • A flier titled ‘Funeral Procession of the “Freeman’s Journal”’ (1924). • Numerous republican street ballad fliers and leaflets. • Publicity material and original printed ephemera relating to Thomas Ashe. • An original United Irish League national convention meeting ticket signed by Joseph Devlin (23 April 1912). • A flier for a patriotic concert to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Robert Emmet, held in the Rotunda Rooms in Dublin (4 March 1915). • Dublin by-election flier (1915). • Signed Constance Markievicz postcard print (1918). • The funeral of Hermann Görtz (May 1947). • Obituaries for Tomás S. Cuffe (1949). • Clippings towards the end of the volume relate to later commemorations (and obituary notices) for prominent Irish nationalists. • Photographs placed at the end of the volume show several actors in traditional Gaelic clothing for a theatrical performance (most likely a Saint Patrick pageant).
