Photographic prints relating to the funeral of Pope John XXIII (d. 3 June 1963). The prints are mainly press photographs from Fotografia Pontificia Giordani, Rome.
An Anti-Treaty leaflet and off-print concerning conditions in Kilkenny Jail, the murder of Sean Edwards in Kilkenny, and the murder of Maurice Condon, an unarmed prisoner in Clonmel Town Hall.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Father James O’Mahony OFM Cap. Perpetual Cup. Feis Maitiú’. The base includes silver shields denoting winners from 1968-1997. Attached sticker indicates that this cup was awarded for a poetry competition.
A view of the Four Courts, Dublin, from a photograph taken on Wood Quay in about 1945.
The Four Courts as seen from a laneway (‘the Forty Steps’) adjacent to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
Erskine Childers, ‘The form and purpose of home rule / a lecture delivered at a public meeting convened by the Young Ireland branch of the United Irish League at the Mansion House, Dublin, on March 2nd, 1912’ (Dublin: E. Ponsonby, 116 Grafton Street, 1912).
A view of the Ford Factory in Cork in about 1945.
Stephen Rynne, ‘The flight from our country (31,436 souls in 1937) / (being letters between Stephen Rynne, a farmer, and Thomas Kennedy, a townsman, on the cure for rural depopulation) (Dublin, [Social Credit Bureau, c.1939]).
A flier with the text of a republican poem titled ‘The Flag on the G.P.O. / Easter 1917’ by J.J. Walsh. The first two lines of the verse read ‘Why gather the crowd in O'Connell Street? / Why throng all the people there? …’.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Fitzgerald Cup. Father Mathew Feis’. On reverse of the bowl: List of winners from 1974-95.