Clippings from ‘An Claidheamh Soluis’ of a articles written in tribute to Fr. Michael O’Hickey. The main article is written by Pádraig Ó Brolcháin and is titled ‘In Memory of Doctor O’Hickey’ (2 December 1916). The file also includes a response to Ó Brolcháin’s article by Fr. Walter McDonald, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth.
Portrait prints of Dom Columba Marmion OSB. One of the prints has a manuscript annotation crediting the image to ‘Stanley’.
A card with a manuscript prayer in French on the reverse dated 11 Août (August) 1909. It has not been determined if the text is in the hand of Dom Columba Marmion OSB.
Flier from the Property Defence Association noting that agents from the Association have attended forty-five sheriff’s sales of stock and has one hundred and twenty men acting as ‘caretakers’.
Three resolutions passed at a meeting of the County Louth branch of the Property Defence Association.
A flier from the Emergency Committee outlining its aims and its work to date. The flier asks for subscriptions to enable the Committee to carry out its work. The flier reads ‘Although the Committee is connected with the Orange Society, its aid has been and will continue to be given to all persons irrespective of creed and political views’. It also affirms that the ‘Committee have had 300 labourers engaged in cutting and saving hay and other crops, in 19 different counties in Ireland; and many persons would have lost their entire crops but for the action of the Committee’. The document was issued by Athol Johnson Dudgeon, honorary secretary.
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.
Circulars from the Irish Land Committee re the employment of counsels for landowners and ‘landed proprietors’ at Land Courts.
Circular notice giving the names of members and individuals serving on various committees of the Irish Landowners’ Convention.
Letter from Robert. M.D. Sanders, Honorary Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention. Sanders asks for ‘particulars of any sales of tenant right’. He adds that the committee ‘desire this information for the purpose of ascertaining the relative value of the tenant right on estates’ since the passage of the Land Act of 1881.