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An image of the exterior of the Cathedral of the Assumption in Carlow town.

An image of turf collectors loading peat onto a traditional creel carried by a donkey. The location is the pier at Cill Éinne on Inis Mór (Inishmore), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway. The village in the distance is Cill Rónáin (Kilronan).

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., suggesting that a person of the calibre of Seán French (1889-1937) should be in America as he would ‘heal the wounds and bitterness caused by divisions of the past few years’. Bibby also refers to his ill-health and remarks that he dreaded the idea of 'being buried with the Penn[sylvania] Dutch over 3,000 miles from dear old Ireland '. He also makes some caustic remarks in relation to Fr. Peter Bowe, the Irish Capuchin Provincial Minister, who is on a visitation to the the Western United States mission. He suggests that the Provincial is 'in no hurry – making most of every hour and every place – he has made his journey one joy ride, all the way and all the time. Everywhere you hear he is out for a good time. What an ideal!'.

An image of a thatched cottage near Rosslare in County Wexford in about 1950.

A clipping of a photograph of Irish Volunteers in Wexford described as local leaders during the 1916 Rising. The group includes Séamus Rafter, Robert Brennan, and Séamus Doyle.

A clipping of a photograph of Second Lieutenant Cecil Robert Walter McCammond ‘who rode through the crowd at Portobello Bridge, Dublin, at great risk, and decimated the rebels there’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.

A clipping of an obituary or the sculptor Jerome Connor. The article includes an image of Connor with a section of his work for the ‘Lusitania’ memorial in Cobh, County Cork. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Press’ (23 August 1943). (Volume page 117).

An image of the funeral of Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO, the former Abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey in County Waterford. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'scene at the graveside of the late Lord Abbot of Mount Melleray / Most Rev. Dr. [Bernard] Hackett DD, Bishop of Waterford, with spade. The new Lord Abbot, Rt. Rev. Stanislaus Hickey is shown second from left'.

A view of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Knock, County Mayo. A large crowd appears to be assembled at the shrine on the south gable wall of the church.

Letter from Seán Ó Floinn, Kirwan’s Hotel, Carrick-on-Suir, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the publication of the work by Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. He also asks that copies be sent to John Henebry in Portlaw, County Waterford.