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An image of a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the garden of the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin in about 1945.

Publisher: Dublin: C.M. Warren, 21 Upper Ormond Quay
Language: English
Full title: 'Rule book of the Father Mathew OSFC Sacred Thirst / The Father Mathew Memorial Hall, Dublin / Branch of St. Patrick’s League of the Cross / attached to the Church of Our Lady of Angels, Church Street, Dublin'. The front cover has an ink drawing of the Hall fronting onto Church Street.

Letter to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Parochial House in Windgap, Callan, County Kilkenny, re an article about postage stamps in aid of the foreign missions. Reference is also made to contributions to ‘The Father Mathew Record’ seemingly by Frank Ryan.

A view of the Cathedral Church of St. Colman in Cobh, County Cork, in about 1950.

An overhead view of St. Patrick’s Street, the principal shopping and commercial street running through the centre of Cork.

Menu card for a Unionist Banquet held in The Rotunda, Dublin, on 26 January 1893. The event was held to honour several Unionists MPs. The politicians were Horace Plunkett (1854-1932), the Irish Unionist Alliance MP for South Dublin from 1892 to 1900. Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster (1855-1909), the Liberal Unionist MP for West Belfast from 1892 to 1906. Richard Martin Dane (1852-1903), MP for North Fermanagh from 1892 to 1898. William Kenny QC (1846-1921), MP for St. Stephen’s Green (Dublin) from 1892 to 1898, and John Ross QC (1853-1935), MP for Londonderry city from 1892 to 1895.

A republican leaflet addressed to ‘young women’ in Dublin asking to them to refrain from having British soldiers as romantic companions.

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.