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A postcard print titled 'Cardinal [Joseph] MacRory returns after blessing the Memorial, at Saul'. The image shows the statue of Saint Patrick which was constructed to mark the fifteenth centenary of the probable year of his arrival in Ireland in 432 AD.

Images of the procession of friendly societies in the Italian Quarter of Hatton Garden in London in July 1931. The procession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – held on the Sunday after 16 July – was Little Italy’s most important cultural event. Except during wartime, it has taken place annually since at least 1896. The procession was one of the first public manifestations of Catholicism given legal sanction since the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Queen Victoria was said to have granted special permission to the local police in Holborn to allow the parade to take place.

A postcard print of the Mercy Convent in Ardee, County Louth. Printed caption on image side reads 'The Convent of Mercy, Ardee'. A manuscript note on the reverse (addressed to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin) reads '... At present I have 50 books of tickets on hand for the Canon for Ballapousta draw, but will not forget you when this is over. / Sr. M. K.'. Postmark date reads 25 September 1931.

Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. (centre) with Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (right) and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (left), probably onboard a ship during their first voyage to Africa in late 1931.

Cutting from the Irish Press reporting on the departure of Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. for Northern Rhodesia.

A flier produced for Thomas Harris, the Fianna Fáil candidate, in the Kildare by-election held in June 1931.

A flier produced for Thomas Harris, the Fianna Fáil candidate, in the Kildare by-election held in June 1931.

A flier produced for Thomas Harris, the Fianna Fáil candidate, in the Kildare by-election held in June 1931.

The poem reads:
‘Thy favours still, O Lord bestow;
Through Mary’s hands may grace still flow;
Give me the Cross or pain or woe,
But give to Eire Liberty’.

An image of the destroyed exterior of the Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (a De La Salle Brothers’ school) in Madrid, Spain. The building was destroyed during anticlerical riots in the Spanish capital in May 1931. Between 10 May and 13 May 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were destroyed in an event known as the 'Burning of the Convents'.