Author: Sir John Pope Hennessy (1834-1891)
Publisher: Cork: Guy & Co. Ltd., 70 Patrick Street
Language: English
Full title: 'Temperance and Nationality / The Father Mathew Centennial Oration / Delivered in Cork, 10th October, 1890'.
Inscribed on bowl: ‘Feis Maitiú. The Father Mathew Centennial Memorial Trophy (Perpetual Challenge Cup). To commemorate the Centenary of Fr. Mathew’s Death which occurred in 1856’. On reverse of the bowl: ‘Presented by John Cahill. Lay Vice President of Father Mathew Hall. Easter 1956’.
A view of the Falls Road, Belfast, looking towards the Diamond Cinema, in about 1950.
A copy of a pamphlet titled ‘The escape from Mountjoy / and other prison experiences of an Irish volunteer, Padraic Fleming (convict E-445) / written by the Rector of an Irish college / with a foreword by Piaras Beaslai, T.D.’ (New York: Reprinted by the Friends of Irish Freedom, Inc., [c.1921]).
A postcard print of the gatehouse (or porter's lodge) at the ruined Mellifont (Cistercian) Abbey in County Louth.
A leaflet listing Irish republicans who died in English jails. The final line reads ‘What are you going to do?’ Manuscript annotation reads ‘9th March 1919’.
A reprint of an article from the ‘Daily Express’ extolling the ‘noble work done by the Orange Committee’. Issued from the Committee’s Offices in Dublin by Athol Johnson Dudgeon, honorary secretary.
Ada Kathleen Longfield, ‘The eighteenth century memorials by Dennis Cullen of Monaseed’ ([Dublin]: Copies obtainable from Avoca Handweavers, Glendalough, [1948]).
The Ecclesiastical Review on morality of hunger-strike / Rev. Michael Hogan SJ. Reprinted from 'The Irish World', May 1933. Printed by the Catholic Book Publishing Co., 43-45 East 12th Street, New York City.
Norreys Jephson O’Conor, ‘The early Irish fairies and fairyland’ (Reprinted from the October number of the "Sewanee Review", 1920). The fly-page has a manuscript dedication from Norreys Jephson O’Conor.