Author: D.T. Barry Publisher: Cork: Shandon Printing Works, 37 South Mall Language: English Full title: 'Alcohol: its work / a lecture delivered before St. Finbarr’s Total Abstinence Society by D.T. Barry, MD, FRCS (Eng.), DPH, Professor of Physiology, Queen’s College, Cork'. Manuscript annotation on front cover reads: ‘Fr. Alphonsus [Carroll] OSFC’.
Recollections of the 1916 Rising by Nicholas Laffan titled ‘Ireland’s War of Independence / Easter Week 1916’. It is noted that Laffan was a Captain in G Company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers. With a cover letter from Laffan to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. stating that this article ‘has not appeared in any paper’. He also states that he is an old member of the Third Order of St. Francis (Merchants’ Quay) having joined in April 1904 (66 years ago)’.
An image of Irish National Army troops at Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin. Originally constructed for the British military in 1827, the barracks was the first military installation to be handed over to the newly formed Provisional Government on 1 February 1922.
Two plates showing a Capuchin friar standing along a forested lane-way probably near Rochestown in County Cork. The cover annotation suggests that the friar is Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap. (1866-1946).
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).
A copy of ‘Prison Bars / an organ of the Women’s Prisoners Defence League’ (No. 19, November 1938). This edition includes articles Maud Gonne MacBride and Mary MacSwiney.