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A flier titled 'A plea for the Catholic Boy’s Brigade by E.D. Daly'. The flier refers to the good works performed by Boys’ Brigade members in the Church Street area and seeks subscriptions to aid the organisation. It reads: ‘At present Church Street is not quite up to the mark of its energetic past. The sites of several of its rookeries of wickedness are now covered by Police Courts, and by buildings in which Capuchins carry on their work. …. How long this breeding ground of sin and crime existed in the past must be left to imagination. What is certain is that this worst spot of the worst city in Ireland was selected by the Capuchin Order as a place in which to live, beside the poor, and to help them against temptations to crime and intemperance. To anyone who can feel for the poor, and understand evils around them which they do not realise themselves, the way to Church Street from Sackville Street is still like a descent into Hades, if traversed about 8 p.m. at this time of year’. The file contains three copies of the document.

Photographic prints of two close-up views of the High Altar and pulpit of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘The Father Mathew Record’

The exterior of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. A caption notes that the church was blessed and opened on 19 March 1933.

A photographic print of General Richard Mulcahy at the formal handover of Beggars Bush Barracks to the National Army in Dublin on 1 February 1922. Captain O’Daly (right) has just been presented with the colours.

A postcard print captioned ‘The insurrection in Dublin – armoured motor car in Bachelor’s Walk’. The postcard was printed by Hely’s in Dublin.

A clipping of a report on the execution of Major John MacBride in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin on 5 May 1916. The clipping was taken from the ‘Dublin Evening Mail’.

A passenger liner off the coast at Dún Laoghaire in County Dublin on 24 June 1932. A caption on the reverse of the image (credited to the Irish Army Air Corps) notes that ship’s arrival at the port was associated with the 31st International Eucharistic Congress (22-26 June 1932).

A view of Knocklofty Bridge over the River Suir in about 1935. The bridge is located near Clonmel on the border between Counties Tipperary and Waterford. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Knocklofty Bridge (River Suir) / dividing County Waterford from County Tipperary'.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby, St. Benedict’s Rectory, 320 West End Street, New York, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., re his arrival in New York and to his meeting with Fr. Solanus Casey OFM Cap. He describes Casey as ‘a New Yorker, a great worker in the cause and a grand Friar of genial but somewhat ascetic type. He speaks at meetings, writes in [the] Press, and is the friend and trusted confidant of the right people’. Fr. Albert also refers to divisions in the Irish community in New York and notes that ‘our friends are split up into pieces – too bad. I’m speaking with a grand type of man who with tears in his eyes spoke of Liam M[ellows] … English gold and English diplomacy is at work in sowing the seeds of discord here’. He concludes that ‘the more I see here the greater my appreciation of Ireland’.

A tribute to Terence MacSwiney seemingly published in Madrid, Spain, in August 1921. The text of the tribute is given in Spanish with an Irish and English translation. A portrait print of MacSwiney by the Spanish artist Maroto accompanies the text. This copy is signed by his sister Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne) dated 25 October 1922.