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A copy of ‘Notes on Map Reading / for use in Army Schools’ (London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1915).

Research notes compiled by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. re the life of Fr. Richard Henebry. The file includes two small notebooks containing headings for a biographical treatment of Henebry’s life. One of the manuscripts is titled ‘Brogue’ and refers to ‘Celtic scholarship’ and the ‘dialect of English spoken in Ireland, or Anglo-Irish is usually called the “brogue”. The text is signed by Fr. Senan and is dated 21 Sept. 1924.

Short biographical histories and chronologies by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. of Fr. Bryan McDonnell OSFC (1716-1782) and Fr. Michael Collins OSFC with particular reference to their ministries in Cork. References are made in the biography of Fr. Collins to extracts from Fr. Nicholas Archbold’s 'Historie' and Fr. Robert O’Connell’s 'Historia' which refer to his life.

A file containing notes relating to the aims of education, educational theory, and the philosophy of education notes (probably for the Higher Diploma in Education in the Michaelmas term, 1914-5). There is some duplication in the notes.

Handwritten notes relating to Blackrock properties. Mentioned are George Minchin, whose mother was Ellen Potter Minchin, née Burrowes. George received a fifth of the rent of Prospect through his parents and another fifth through Eliza Burrowes, daughter of Reverend John Burrowes. On 14 August 1879, [William] McEvoy had both parts conveyed to him.
There are other notes relating to names of people who held certain fields in Blackrock, such as Robert Byrne, Georgina Mary Byrne, Thomas Ballings and John Burrowes Pilsworth.

Notes from the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan (1839-1916), Bishop of Cork, to the Holy Trinity community. The file includes a note re the desired formula for a declaration to be signed at the reception of converts to the Catholic faith and a sanction for the creation of a young men’s’ sodality at Holy Trinity Church.

A ‘special number’ of Notes from Ireland (no. 2a, vol. 25) reporting on the ‘Sinn Féin Revolt’. The journal was published by the Irish Unionist Alliance.

Notes from Frank Cullen, prisoner no. 135, to his brother Tom and to his mother, mostly referring to prison conditions. He informs his brother that a photograph of ‘poor John J. Heuston which his sister Theresa sent me about a fortnight ago’ was confiscated. ‘I was told that the photograph was of one of the men executed in Dublin and they could not give it to me … you see we are not allowed to have the photograph of an Irishman in our cells who gave his life for his country’. He asks both his brother and mother to remember him to his various friends at home.