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A view of Turlough Round Tower and the adjoining church in County Mayo in about 1960.

Lease of Property at Temple Road from CM Trustees to William Whelan, including a map. There is also a handwritten note summarising points made in leases.

A letter from Patrick Collins, 6 Clonmore Road, Ballybough, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of an account of the final hours and execution of Seán Hueston in Kilmainham Jail on 8 May 1916. The account was written by his uncle who was a relation of Seán Hueston. Reference is made in the account to the ministrations to Heuston by Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

Photographic prints compiled for a feature commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Rising, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1967), pp 101-30. The article was titled ‘Ireland remembers with pride Easter Week 1916 in Golden Jubilee celebrations’. Many of the prints are of various parades of veterans and civic events commemorating the Rising. Some of the prints are annotated on the reverse giving location, photographer and copyright information. The file includes prints from the 'Irish Press', Kennelly’s Photo Works, Tralee, and the 'Cork Examiner'. Includes images of parades and commemorations in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Dundalk, Tralee, Tullamore, Waterford, and London. The file includes the following images:
• Jubilee Parade at the GPO on O’Connell Street, Dublin.
• Florence Monteith Lynch and Nuala Creagh at Banna Strand, County Kerry.
• 1916 commemoration in Tullamore, County Offaly.
• Siobhan McKenna reads the 1916 proclamation in Eyre Square, Galway.
• Republican gathering at Thomas Kent’s grave in St. Finbarr’s Cemetery, Cork.
• Members of Cumann na mBan and the old-IRA at the unveiling of a monument in Ennis, County Clare.
The file also includes a small number of related newspaper clippings.

A view of two plough horses at work in fields on the coast of County Kerry. The photograph is by Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh (1907-1967).

Photographic prints of the demolition of the old Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. Some of the images also show the shell of the former Ards House and construction work on the new friary building and oratory. Several of the prints show the two buildings during the transition phase of construction of the new House of Studies and Ards Friary. A small number of the prints have annotations on the reverse:
• ‘Ceiling of choir, in old house, Ards, a few days before it was demolished’.
• ‘Demolition of old Ards House in progress’.
• ‘Ards, Autumn 1964’.

A pencilled portrait of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. by Fred A. Farrell published in ‘The Universe’ (3 March 1933).

A flier with the text of a republican ballad titled ‘The Old Kings Inns / June 1st 1920’.

An image showing women vacating their homes in Balbriggan in County Dublin. The photograph is titled ‘Refugees from the Irish Front’. The caption notes that the ‘population has been terror-stricken by the recent lawlessness which has caused so much damage’.

A clipping of an article referring to the commission given to Evie Hone to design a stained-glass window in the College Chapel in Eton. The article was published in the ‘Irish Times’ (6 December 1949).