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A hardbound volume containing copies of the ‘Daily Mirror’ (11 May 1916-17 May 1916). Gilt title to spine reads ‘Roger Casement / 1916’. The editions include numerous articles and photographic content covering the aftermath of the Easter Rising (including the executions of the rebel leaders) and the ongoing Great War. There is also extensive coverage and photographic images relating to the capture and trial of Roger Casement.

A clipping of an obituary article titled ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916). The opposite page has a print of Fr. Michael O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’.

Clippings from ‘An Claidheamh Soluis’ of a articles written in tribute to Fr. Michael O’Hickey. The main article is written by Pádraig Ó Brolcháin and is titled ‘In Memory of Doctor O’Hickey’ (2 December 1916). The file also includes a response to Ó Brolcháin’s article by Fr. Walter McDonald, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth.

Copy extract from a letter by Harry O’Hanrahan to his mother and sisters. The letter is in the hand of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. He refers to his detainment in Richmond Barracks and to detectives selecting ‘out about 14 including the 2 Cosgraves, T. Mac Donagh, Kent, ourselves etc …’. He also refers to the fighting in Jacob’s Biscuit Factory.

A calling card of P.H. Pearse, St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham. Manuscript signature of Ėamon de Valéra on reverse.

Letter from Patrick Holohan, ‘Number: 975, hut 2, Irish Prisoner … Frongoch, North Wales’ to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, referring to the provision of religious services and giving news of conditions and prisoners at the camp. Holohan adds ‘I was glad to hear that you were with Heuston when he died as I was very fond of him. It is delightful to see all our leaders being converted to the Catholic faith’. With cover which has been opened by the censor.

Copies of ‘The Catholic Record of Waterford and Lismore’ from May 1916 (Vol. IV, No. 39) to Oct. 1916 (Vol. IV, No. 44). The editions contain tributes to the late Fr. Richard Henebry written by Fr. Michael Sheehan.

A copy of ‘The Irish Homestead’, Vol. XXIII, No. 46 (11 Nov. 1916). The edition contains an article titled ‘Templecrone: A record of co-operative activity’.

A note from Commandant Thomas Hunter to Commandant Éamon de Valera during the 1916 Rising. The pencilled note reads ‘Headquarters staff want to know why you require ten men’. It also suggests that an ‘attack was not to begin until 11.15pm’. The message concludes by asking de Valera to ‘report immediately to Commandant [Thomas] Hunter’. The note provides a time of 10.15pm.

A ticket for an Irish Volunteers concert held in the Antient Concert Rooms on Great Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street) in Dublin on 9 April 1916. The concert included an address by Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945), a Gaelic scholar and Irish nationalist who had established the Irish Volunteers in 1913. (Volume page 187).