The Four Courts as seen from a laneway (‘the Forty Steps’) adjacent to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
A volume of The Forum, Ferns Diocesan Bulletin which features an article on the history of the Presentation Sisters in Enniscorthy by Sr. Josephine.
Presentation SistersErskine 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.
A typescript book which was written and bound for Desmond Ashbrook by his son-in-law and daughter, Charles and Jane Foster. The volume traces the genealogy of the Flower Family of Castle Durrow in the 17th Century. An inscription inside the cover states that the book was passed on to Presentation Convent Durrow in June 1984. Also includes a leaflet for Arley Hall and Gardens, the ancestral home of the Hon. Michael and Mrs. Flower.
Presentation SistersStephen 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.
A clipping of a report copied from the ‘Daily Mail’ on Éamon de Valera election campaign in East Clare. The clipping is taken the ‘Evening Herald’ (4 October 1917).
A flier titled ‘The Ferrets of Kildare’ referring to the escape of Irish prisoners from the Curragh Camp in County Kildare in 1921. (Volume page 4).