Author: B. Magennis
Publisher: Newry: Printed at ‘The Reporter’ Machine Works
Language: English
Inscribed on foot: ‘Moore’s Melodies Presented by Denis Guiney 1947’. The bowl is inscribed with winners from 1973-96. The base also has silver shields indicating winners.
The issue of 'The Monitor, the family Catholic Weekly of New Jersey’, for 28 Feb. 1925 (No. 9). Two pages of the paper are dedicated in tribute to the recently deceased Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., ‘a priest of Ireland’s Resurrection’.
The file contains the following editions of this newspaper published in Kilkenny:
6 Aug. 1814 (No. 94)
13 Aug. 1814 (No. 97)
A view of the Mercy Hospital (now Mercy University Hospital) in Cork in 1938. The caption to the photograph notes that the building was ‘once the Mansion House’, a reference to the fact that the oldest part of the hospital was built between 1764 and 1767 and that the original building served as the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Cork until 1842.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘McCullough Trophy for Senior Solo Open Wind Competition. Father Mathew Feis 1959. Presented by McCullough’s Ltd., Dawson Street, Dublin’. The base includes inscriptions indicating winners from 1959-95.
Maire MacEgan, ‘The Marvels at Kerrytown’ (Dublin: Bray Printing Company, [c.1947]).
A complete copy of 'The Tatler and Bystander', 18 Feb. 1948, which includes an article (and photographic print) re the wedding in London of Pieter Stewart Bam (1914-2001) and Margaret Agnes Kitson. A manuscript annotation notes that ‘Pieter Stewart Bam is the son of the former owner of Ards House’.
Inscribed on the bowl: ‘Marian Arts Society Father Mathew Féis Perpetual Challenge Cup’. The bowl is also inscribed with a list of winners from 1962-97.
A clipping of an appreciation of Douglas Hyde written by Daniel Corkery. The article was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (13 July 1949).