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Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.

A photographic print (on card) of the interior of the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny. An annotation on the reverse reads: ‘Capuchin Convent, Walkin Street, Kilkenny. A. McMahon. With Fr. [Columbus] Maher’s compliments’.

A photographic print of the Capuchin Friary Church in Kilkenny. Ink-stamped on the reverse: ‘Rathmines Photographic Studio, 26 Richmond Hill, Dublin’.

Photographic print (on card) of the interior of the Capuchin Friary Church in Kilkenny.

An admission ticket to an event honouring Charles Stewart Parnell in Edinburgh. The public demonstration (organised by a local Liberal association) was held on 20 July 1889 and marked the bestowal upon Parnell of the freedom of the Scottish city.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I have written a letter to the “Agnostic Journal” upon [the] same subject (agnosticism and atheism) principally because my name was mentioned therein’.

A clipping of an article reporting on the funeral of William Woodlock. The article notes that Woodlock died on 12 June 1890 (aged 58). It reads ‘The remains of the late Mr. William Woodlock JP, one of the Divisional Police Magistrates of Dublin, were removed this morning from his residence, Mounty Square, for internment in Glasnevin Cemetery … the burial service was recited by the Most Rev. [Bartholomew] Woodlock, Bishop of Ardagh’. The article notes that Bishop Bartholomew Woodlock was William Woodlock’s uncle.

A photograph print of retired British Army soldiers outside the entrance to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin.

A clipping of a short death notice for William Woodlock, ‘one of the Divisional Magistrates of Dublin’. The article is taken from the ‘Irish Catholic’ (June 1890).

Photographic prints of the sculptor Mary Redmond. One of the images shows her at work on the Father Theobald Mathew Statue (O’Connell Street, Dublin). The presumed model for the statue is also present in this image. This photograph is dated 30 June 1891. Another print seemingly shows her memorial bust of William Limbrick Martin for the Phoenix Park RIC depot (the bust was moved in 1967 to the RUC headquarters, Belfast, and the remainder of the memorial is in St. James Church, Dublin).