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A bound volume containing newspaper clippings containing a transcription by An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire of a medieval text on the life of Colum Cille (also known as Columba) (c.521-597), the founder of the monastery of Iona. The articles also contain translations and textual notes. The clippings are undated, but all the articles are headed ‘Our Gaelic Department / Colum Cille’ and are likely taken from the ‘Cork Examiner’.

Flier and subscription card for the St. Enda’s School purchase fund fundraising ‘to return the School to The Hermitage, Rathfarnham’. At foot of second page ‘Signed by F. Murphy and E. Bulfin, Hon. Secs.; Joseph MacDonagh and Rev. Eugene Nevin, C.P. Hon. Treas’. At top right side: ‘St. Enda’s College, Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin’. The text is mainly in English with a small portion in Irish. Published in Dublin by The Gaelic Press. Twenty signatures are extant on the subscription portion of the item.

A clipping of an article reporting the resignation of Bartholomew Woodlock as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise (‘Irish Times’, 12 October 1894).

List of priests (with biographical information) serving the parishes of Doneraile and Shanballymore in County Cork from 1688 to 1910. Canon Sheehan’s entry reads ‘Born in New-Street, Mallow, March 17th, 1852. Educated at St. Colman’s and Maynooth. Ordained in Cork Cathedral in April 1875; Exeter 1875-1877; Mallow, 1877-1881; Queenstown, 1881-1889; Mallow, 1889-1895. Appointed Parish Priest of Doneraile in July 1895’.

Letter to Anna Fahy confirming that the ‘bag of clothing’ she has sent has been given to her husband in Reading Jail. The letter adds ‘He is quite well. He is also allowed to write and receive three letters each week’.

Letter from John O’Mahony, Cork, to a ‘dear friend’ [likely either James Joseph O’Kelly or John O’Connor Power]. The letter reads ‘I have received orders to suppress any attempt at raising an “Irish Brigade” for any purpose than that of Ireland’. The letter adds ‘There are a great many persons here who would be only to anxious to fight for France, but in the face of the orders I have received, you cannot blame me for not giving you the assistance which in my heart I would wish’. Endorsed ‘Memo / written by O’Mahony … Cork’. 25 February 1871. Endorsed on front page ‘7197’.

A copy of ‘Glór na Ly / páipéar nóchda a n-ay an ví’ (‘Machroumha [Macroom], Mí na Sâuna, 1911’). The edition includes a long article on Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) with a photographic print.

Letter to John Ribton Garstin from A. Fuller expressing his hope that Garstin will vote for Alexander Edward Miller at the forthcoming Trinity College by-election.

A view of the Lyric Cinema, James Street, Dublin in about 1950. The Lyric Cinema closed in 1962 and the building was later used as part of a commercial premises. It was demolished in 2002.

Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, Wales, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Frongoch was described as the ‘University of the Revolution’. Among the internees in the camp were leading republicans such as Michael Collins, Terence MacSwiney, Richard Mulcahy, and Gerry Boland.