A hard-bound volume containing a complete run of this weekly publication. The series runs from 1 Sept. 1900 (Vol. V, No. 1)-20 Feb. 1904 (Vol. VII, No. 26). The founding editor of 'The Leader' was the Waterford-born David Patrick Moran. He was educated in Mount Sion CBS, and later in St. Vincent’s College, Castleknock. On leaving school he went to London where he gained his first journalistic appointment at the 'Star' newspaper, founded by T.P. O’Connor. Moran was attracted to the Irish language movement and, through it, to Irish nationalism, during his thirteen years in London. In 1898 he returned to Dublin and joined the Gaelic League. In 1900 he founded 'The Leader', an outspoken weekly publication devoted to preserving important facets of the cultural and national heritage of the country. The Leader was an immediate success. 'The Leader' attracted a lot of Irish advertising and Moran saw the publicising of Irish goods as one of its main roles. He advocated buy Irish campaigns but sensibly warned that the Irish people would buy Irish goods only if they were ‘as good and as cheap’ as imports. An ink stamp on the inside front cover and on the fly leaf reads: ‘Father Matthew Temperance Hall, Church Street, Dublin’. Folio, some illustrations. Bound volume with title to spine ‘The Leader, Vols. 5-7’.
A clipping of a letter from the relatives of the late Seán Hales condemning the executions of republicans in reprisal for his murder. The signatories include his brother Donal Hales, Irish Consul in Genoa, Italy. The letter was addressed to the editor of the ‘Cork Examiner’ but the clipping is taken from ‘Eire’ (20 January 1923).
Portrait image with an annotated cover reading 'the late John Bowe, Kilkenny Friary'.
Mary Donnelly (compiler), ‘The last post / Glasnevin Cemetery / being a record of Ireland’s heroic dead in Dublin city and county, also places of historic interest’ (Dublin: National Graves Association, 1932).
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The Land question, Ireland / Confiscation or contract? / November 1880’ (Dublin: Irish Land Committee, [1880]).
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The land law (Ireland) act, 1881 / Royal Assent, 22nd August 1881’ (Dublin: published at the “Freeman” Office, 4-6 Prince’s Street, 1881).
A flier with the text of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s lament for the Fenian Edward Duffy.
A postcard print image of the Lake Hotel in Killarney, County Kerry.
The file contains the following edition of this local newspaper: 23 Oct. 1948 (Vol. 55, No. 43). The edition carries reports on the celebrations of the tercentenary of the arrival of the Capuchin Order in Kilkenny including a sermon preached by Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. on the history of the Capuchins in the city. The celebrations were attended by the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Fr. Bonaventure McCafferty OFM Cap., Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap., F.J. McGeary, editor of the Irish Independent and Mr. T.F. De Loughrey, Mayor of Kilkenny.
The file contains the following editions of this local newspaper:
16 June 2000 (Bishop Laurence Forristal on the occasion of first confirmations at the Capuchin Friary Church in Kilkenny).
13 June 2003 (Article re the refurbishment of the gravestones of eighteenth-century Capuchin Priests in Kilkenny. See also CA KK/6/4).
3 June 2005 (Fr. Benjamin O’Connell OFM Cap. on the Capuchins in Kilkenny).
16 Sept. 2005 (Article titled: ‘Friary’s future hangs in the balance’).