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An information flier on the Mainie Jellet travelling scholarship fund established to perpetuate the memory of her ‘inspiring work as a teacher and friend of the younger generation of Irish artists’.

An article reporting on the return by Captain E.J. Hitzen of some mementoes and ephemera he captured following the 1916 Rising. The items included the white flag used by Éamon de Valera during the surrender of Boland’s Mill. The article also refers to Hitzen’s recollections of the Rising. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Times’ (5 April 1948).

A postcard print image of the Healy Pass near Glengarriff in County Cork. The caption provides the full name of the road. It was named after Timothy Michael Healy (1885-1931), a Cork-born nationalist politician, and the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

An image of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. with parishioners outside a church in Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of the ruins of Fore Abbey, an early Christian and Benedictine monastery, in County Westmeath.

A postcard print image of St. Eunan's College in Letterkenny, County Donegal.

Instructions for local Sinn Féin clubs for 1921-2. The document divides up the work suitable for Sinn Féin Cumainn in different areas (divided into those in urban, rural or seaboard areas, those with ample hall accommodation, and those that can only act as an election or organising committee). Also provided is a list of appropriate books for Sinn Féin Club libraries.

A photographic print of the destroyed Gresham Hotel on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The hotel along with many other buildings on upper O’Connell Street were destroyed during the opening phases of the Civil War hostilities in Dublin.

A clipping of a report on the death of Sir John Maxwell in Cape Town, South Africa, on 21 February 1929. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.