A copy of ‘The Irish Military Guide’ (Dublin: printed by Ernest Manico Limited, 12 D’Olier Street, February 1903). The cover has a portrait image of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Ireland.
Sir Geroge Errington, ‘The Irish land question, a problem in practical politics / A letter to the Right Hon. H.C.E. Childers, M.P., Secretary of State for War, from George Errington, M.P. (County Longford) (Dublin: Gill & Son, 1880).
William Maccombie, ‘The Irish land question practically considered: a letter to the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone’ (Aberdeen, D. Wyllie & Son, 1869).
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The Irish land bill / speech delivered by the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone in the House of Commons on his motion introducing the Land Law (Ireland) Bill, April 7th, 1881’ ([London]: National press agency, limited, 1881).
A copy of ‘The Irish Homestead’, Vol. XXIII, No. 46 (11 Nov. 1916). The edition contains an article titled ‘Templecrone: A record of co-operative activity’.
Draft article by Beda Herbert titled ‘The Irish Harp’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1970). The file includes an off-print with manuscript additions and corrections to the text.
A copy of ‘The Irish Ecclesiastical Record’, vol. lxix (Oct. 1947) pp 949-944. The issue is a special feature titled ‘The Famine / Irish Emigration and the Church Abroad’. Includes contributions from Professor Denis Gwynn and Rev. John Boyle O’Reilly.
This item consists of photocopied chapters from a book by Rev. Dom Patrick Nolan entitled ‘The Irish Dames of Ypres’. It was printed by Browne and Nolan Limited Dublin. Belfast. Cork. Waterford in 1914. Chapter 111 outlines the foundation of Ypres in 1665, Chapter IV gives an account of Abbess Carey. There are two photocopies of these chapters. One photocopy is not in good condition.
Presentation SistersA clipping of a letter from Constance Markievicz published in the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ on the need to encourage more Irish people to buy locally made cigarettes. Markievicz references the experiences of female workers in the tobacco industry and a campaign by the Women Workers’ Union which notes that two hundred women had recently been dismissed due to a ‘slackness in work’.
A pamphlet by William O’Brien (1852-1928) regarding the Irish Convention, an assembly which sat in Dublin, from July 1917 until March 1918, which sought to address the Irish Question and other constitutional problems relating to an early enactment of self-government for Ireland. Includes an ‘Authorized report of speech delivered on May 21, 1917, in the House of Commons, in the debate on Mr. Lloyd George’s Irish proposals’.