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A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. referring to a publication of his on Irish grammar. Ó Laoghaire wrote 'The fact is, the thing had to remain so long in Mss. because our friends the Gaelic League would not print it as I would not allow them to re-edit-it! I had to wait until the Irish Book Co[mpany] were in a position to take up the work of printing it. Is it not a comical thing that the Dublin Gaelic League would not allow me to be the best judge of my work!'

A clipping of an article titled 'Real Irish Music' published in 'The Waterford Star' (28 Nov. 1903). The article takes the form of a letter to the editor from 'a real admirer' and refers to Fr. Richard Henebry's scholarship on traditional Irish music.

Letter from Fr. Richard Henebry to Maurice Davin, Deerpark, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. Davin refers to his pleasure on having recently met with Henebry in his home in County Tipperary.

A letter to Fr. Richard Henebry from Éamonn O’Neill, The Mill, Kinsale, County Cork. Ó Neill writes that he knows that Henebry will be in Cork, and expresses his hope that he might come to Kinsale and give a speech encouraging the use of Irish.

A postcard print of a painting by William Henry Bartlett (1858-1932) titled ‘Connemara - Going to the Mainland’ dating to 1903.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. referring to his articles on the life of Saint Patrick in the 'Weekly Examiner'. Reference is also made to Norma Borthwick and the Irish Book Company.

An image showing the arrival of King Edward VII and his wife Queen Alexandra at Phoenix Park Racecourse in Dublin in April 1904. The British sovereign arrived in Ireland on 26 April for an eight-day visit during which he attended several events and ceremonies in Dublin, Kilkenny, and Waterford.

A letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. referring to the Munster Feis. Ó Laoghaire wrote ‘I used to be mad when I used to see the citizens of Cork profiting by the Feis and contributing next to nothing to the cost of the Feis’. He adds 'The people of Cork would actually let a few earnest men work themselves to death and then pay the cost of their own funerals'.

A view of a family group comprising three boys and a girl and presumably a mother walking in the woods near Rochestown in County Cork.

A view of the lake at the front of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork. Two friars (one under an umbrella) are seated at the lake edge. One appears to be feeding swans on the lake. The annotated cover provides a date of 1905.