Headed note paper titled: ‘Ards, Cashelmore, County Donegal, Ireland’. A manuscript annotation reads: ‘Note paper of Ards House ere it became a Friary’.
Date: 1796 Author: Andrew Fuller Publisher: London: Printed for, and sold by T. Gardiner, No. 19, Princes-Street, Oxford-Street / Sold also by W. Button, No. 24, Pater-Noster-Row and J. Mathews, Strand. Full title: 'The Calvinistic and Socinian systems examined and compared as to their moral tendency in a series of letters. Addressed to the friends of vital and practical religion. The third edition. By Andrew Fuller'.
Date: 1700 Author: Fr. Robert de Cambrai OSFC Publisher: Coloniae Agrippinae: sump. Viduae Wilh. Metternich Full title: 'Venerabilis patris Roberti Cameracensis Capucini, provinciae Gallo-Belgicae: universalis aurifodina scientiarum divinarum humanarumque, qauae ex aureis SS. Patrum, concilioru, docturum, nec-non philosophorum, paganorum ferè ducentorum visceribus eruta: sententiarum plùs quàm octoginta millia, sub titulis septingentis & ultra, theologica simul & philosophica ordine alphabetico digesta, copiosissimè suppeditat. … Tomus Secundus'. Series: Originally published as a two-volume series. Only Vol. II is extant in the Irish Capuchin Archives. Physical description: [4], 874 pp; 6°; 36 cm x 22 cm. Manuscript annotation on title page: ‘Ex Libris’.
A pledge medal of the Dublin Total Abstinence Association dating to 1840. The front (face) shows the Good Shepherd. The outer-rim inscription reads ‘I have found the sheep that was lost Luke Chap. 15 v. 6’. The obverse has a cruciform text of the pledge and reads: ‘I have voluntarily promised in the presence of the Revd. Dr. Spratt to abstain from all spiritous liquors and intoxicating drinks except used medicinally and then by order of a medical man and the discountenance of all the vices and practices of intemperance and also to attend to my religious duties’. The outer-rim inscription reads ‘The Dublin Total Abstinence Pledge The Very Revd. Dr. Spratt Patron 1840’. The maker of the medal was J. Taylor.
A studio portrait print of a man in military uniform (possibly an Irish Volunteer). A manuscript date on the reverse reads ‘1913’. A pencil annotation on the image-side reads ‘Lloyd / Dublin’.
Explanatory remarks on the Landowners and Encumbrancers’ Association with an outline of the aims of the organization. A list of committee members is provided.
Flier promoting the aims and objectives of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union. The flier affirms that the organisation aims to unite those ‘interested in the preservation of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland’.