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An account by Sister M. Conception, a Presentation nun, relating to the memorial statue of Canon Patrick Sheehan which was unveiled in the church in Doneraile, County Cork, on 18 October 1925.

Two photographic prints of a 'modelled bust of Canon Sheehan' by Joseph Higgins.

Memoriam card for Canon Patrick Sheehan ‘who died on the 5th October 1913 / Rosary Sunday / aged 61 years’.

A clipping of a poem titled ‘In Memory of Rev. Canon Sheehan’ by “Lis Mor” published in ‘The Leader’ (6 Feb. 1915).

Letter from Francis William Doyle Jones, sculptor, 2 Wentworth Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea, London, to a Mr. Gallagher, returning the books and photographs which he had sent him. Doyle Jones completed a memorial statue of Canon Sheehan in Doneraile in 1925.

A postcard portrait print of Canon Patrick Sheehan titled ‘The Author of ‘My New Curate” etc’.

Postcard print of Lisdoonvarna with annotations (by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap.) identifying 'Fr. Tim O’Keeffe, Fr. Horgan PP, and Canon [Patrick] Sheehan'. The photograph was most likely taken at Lisdoonvarna Spa in County Clare.

A volume containing entries compiled by Fr. Patrick Sheehan seemingly covering the years 1874 to 1875. The dated chronicles are titled ‘A leaf from a life’. The diary-like entries are mostly routine providing a record of religious observance and meetings with various clergymen, religious, and lay individuals particularly in the Cloyne diocese in County Cork. The opening pages have been ripped from the volume and the first dated entry reads ‘Sept. 1. 1874. As usual, Met C.B. accompanied him home. Visited the original pepper in company Frs. Field & O’Keeffe’. Some literary content, personal reflections, and references are included in the text. Loose expense accounts are inserted towards the end of the volume. The entries in these accounts include ‘charity list’, rail and travel expenses, tailoring, stationary and other forms of routine expenditure.

Letter from Sister A.E. Woodward RSCJ, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Aberdeen, Scotland. The letter is addressed to Frances Woodlock (possibly William Woodlock’s wife) and refers to the school recently established by the religious sisters in the city. The letter adds ‘Aberdeen is a most interesting old place owing its origin to St. Machar, a disciple of St. Columba. It had many holy Bishops in the good old times and the tombs of several of them are still to be seen’.

Letter from John Patrick Lynch, Belfield, Stillorgan Road, Booterstown, Dublin, apologizing for not being able to attend Mrs Woodlock’s funeral in Glasnevin owing to the onset of a bad cold.