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Copy clipping of an article on the experiences of Catherine McGarvey who in 1907 (aged 15) entered the service of Lady Ena Dingwell Stewart at Ards House. The article was published was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (22 July 1987). The article has lengthy recollections of her experiences as a servant to the Stewart-Bam family. It reads:
'All the time in Ards, the house staff were completely insulated from the outside world. Catherine only saw her parents at Sunday Mass in Doe Chapel, and then only for a few snatched seconds as she hurried back to the big house'.

Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl of Mount Cashel, ‘A statement of facts, with inquiries into the origin and progress of the doctrine of purgatory / from the earliest times down to the Council of Trent’ (Cork: printed by E. Purcell & Son, 88 Patrick Street, 1828).

Photographic prints compiled for an article by G. Allan Little titled ‘A tale of a Convent’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1973), pp 118-123. The file includes images of Catholic religious in Elgin, Scotland.

Date: 1837
Author: Samuel Lewis (d. 1865)
Publisher: London: S. Lewis & Co., 87 Aldersgate Street
Full title: 'A topographical dictionary of Ireland: comprising the several counties; cities; boroughs; corporate, market and post towns; parishes; and villages, with historical and statistical descriptions embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporations ... / by Samuel Lewis'.

Newport J.D. White (editor), ‘A translation of the Latin writings of St. Patrick’ (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918).