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Book of newspaper cuttings relating to the Father Mathew Feis in Dublin. Annotations on the top of each page supply the name of the newspaper and (for later inserts) the date of the newspaper clipping. Includes clippings from the 'Irish Independent', 'Daily Mail', and 'Irish Times'. The clippings mainly relate to competitions and records of prize winners at the Feis. Some clippings relate to the history of the Feis and its connection with the Gaelic League and the National Revival. Biographies of various Capuchin friars involved with the Feis are also included (Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.). A manuscript annotation on the second to last page notes the ‘entries for Feis, 1938: Irish Dancing, 1,095; Others, 713; Total, 1,808’. Inserts include a typescript timetable for the Feis an Athar Maitiú, 1937, signed by Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap., President.

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Short pamphlet promoting the Congregation. No date. Title is "The Society of the Medical Missionaries of Mary." Printed by the Drogheda Independent. 1938

Introductory pamphlet to the Congregation. No date. Title is simply "The Visitation"

An image of the Corpus Christi procession leaving the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Clonmel in County Tipperary. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads ' Corpus Christi Procession, 1938 / The impressive scene as the Blessed Sacrament preceded by altar boys leaving Saints Peter and Paul, Clonmel to head the annual procession'. The photograph is credited to M.A. Keating, Clonmel, County Tipperary.

Production stills from the 1938 film ‘The Island Man’, set on the Blasket Islands off the coast of County Kerry. The prints were assembled for a promotional article on the film published in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. The film starred Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971), a well-known Irish singer and collector of traditional ballads.

A view of the unveiling of the Four Masters monument in The Diamond, the main square, in Donegal Town in 1938. The obelisk was erected to commemorate the four Franciscan friars (Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannáin and Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire) who compiled the ‘Annals of the Four Masters’ between 1630 and 1636. Their names are incised into the monument (one to each face). Written in Irish, the ‘Annals of the Four Masters’ (Irish: 'Annála na gCeithre Máistrí'), are one of the most important surviving chronicles of medieval Irish history. The obelisk was designed by the Dublin architectural firm O’Callaghan and Giron, and was unveiled in 1938 by the Bishop of Raphoe, Dr William MacNeely, at the bequest of Patrick Gallagher, solicitor and noted historian, who bequeathed £5,000 for the creation of the monument.

A view of the Mercy Hospital (now Mercy University Hospital) in Cork in 1938. The caption to the photograph notes that the building was ‘once the Mansion House’, a reference to the fact that the oldest part of the hospital was built between 1764 and 1767 and that the original building served as the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Cork until 1842.

A night-time view of the Father Mathew Statue and behind it the scaffolded façade of the Carlton Cinema on O’Connell Street in Dublin.