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An original total abstinence pledge card of [Con] Boyle dated 23 May 1841. The certificate is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

Silver memorial plaque presented to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The inscription reads:
‘Presented to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew by Messrs Dugdale and McClean in the name of the Catholic and Scottish Union for the Suppression of Intemperance / Patronized by the Right Hon. The Earl of Stanhope in token of their esteem for him as the honoured instrument under God for the Destruction of Intemperance and the Moral Renovation of Mankind / 29th Sept. 1847’.
The obverse shows a man and woman either side of a shield. The man bears a banner with the words ‘sobriety’. The woman bears a banner with the words ‘Domestic Comfort’. The shield is flanked with a ribbon with the words ‘Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men / Be Thou Faithful to Death’.

A framed photograph of John McCormack (1884-1945), the Irish tenor, dedicated to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. It is signed by his wife, Lily McCormack, and dated 1946.

The arrival of President Seán T. O’Kelly and his wife Phyllis Bean Úi Cheallaigh at St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, for a Mass commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1798 Rebellion.

(Left) Fr. James O'Mahony OFM Cap. (1897-1962) and (right) Fr. Ephrem O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (1904-1958) in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin.

An image of a parade to encourage recruitment for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the outbreak of the First World War.

The original caption reads: ‘After the surrender the British soldiers with guns at the ready amid the ruins of Henry Street, at the right of the picture with canopy over the door, the bombed out Coliseum Variety Theatre’.

A photographic print of the shooting of Seán Treacy, a senior Irish Republican, on Talbot Street, Dublin, during the War of Independence.

Photographic prints relating to the visit to Ireland of President John F. Kennedy in June 1963. The photographs are primarily press prints credited to the 'Irish Times', the 'Irish Press', the 'Irish Independent' and Lensman Photographic Agency, Dublin. Other prints are credited to Liam Kennedy & Sons, photographers, 42 MacCurtain Street, Cork, and Ambrose O’Mullane, 15 Wellington Road, Cork. Many of the prints appeared in a special photographic section of 'The Capuchin Annual' (1964), pp 260-88, titled ‘President Kennedy in Ireland, 1963’. The file includes prints showing President Kennedy attending official functions in Dublin (including a state banquet in Iveagh House, and receptions in Dublin Castle and at Áras an Uachtaráin), at Arbour Hill Cemetery, in Wexford Town and in New Ross, and in motorcade processions on O’Connell Street, Dublin, and on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. Other individuals appearing in the prints include Sean T. O’Kelly, Éamon de Valera, Frank Aiken, Seán Lemass, and Eunice Mary Kennedy.

A view of some of the crowds assembled on Arran Quay during the visit of President John F. Kennedy to Dublin on 26 June 1963. The photograph was taken by Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (1904-1984).