Unidad documental compuesta 4 - Speech made by his lordship the Most Rev. Dr. O'Dwyer on the occasion of the conferring of the freedom of the city of Limerick on him, on the 14th September, 1916: Full report.

A report of speech by the Bishop of Limerick, a self-proclaimed nationalist and land-reformer, referring to contemporary political opinion. Alone of all the Irish Hierarchy, O’Dwyer was the only one to support the leaders of the 1916 Rising. A sentence beginning ‘Ireland will never be content as a province’ is underlined in the text. With 'Irish Emigrants and English Mobs / Letter from the Bishop of Limerick' (10 Nov. 1915).