A photograph of a large crowd outside Westland Row Station (now Pearse Station) in Dublin, awaiting the return of released republican prisoners. Many of the prisoners had fought in the Easter Rising of 1916.
Drafts of an article by Kathleen MacKenna Napoli (1897-1988) titled ‘Among the Nations of the Earth / Revolutionary Recollections’. The drafts represent a personal memoir of the revolutionary period. The chapter headings include sections describing the ‘Irish Bulletin story’, the ‘Treaty negotiations’ and the ‘Irish Civil War’.
The account (compiled by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.) begins with Fr. Dominic’s appointment as civic chaplain to Tomas MacCurtain and later to Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayors of Cork. The account includes copy correspondence regarding Fr. Dominic’s trial and copy extracts from newspapers ('Irish Independent', 'Evening Herald' and 'Catholic Herald') referring to the case and requests for the immediate release of the Capuchin priest. Reference is also made to the harsh treatment endured by Fr. Dominic during his captivity.
Publisher: Dublin: Printed by Richard Grace, 45 Capel Street Language: English Full title: 'An accurate report of the proceedings of the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew, in Dublin, in the cause of temperance ... With the sermon preached by him in the Church of the Conception, Marlborough Street'. BOUND WITH: Rev. Thomas Maguire, 'Important Lecture in answer to a Protestant, on Images and Relics delivered by the Rev. T. Maguire, on Good Friday evening last, in Adam and Eve Chapel' (Dublin: McMullen, 14 Upper Stephen Street, 1840). 11 pp; 18.5 cm x 11.2 cm
Author: Rev. Thomas J. Conaty DD, President of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the United States Publisher: Liverpool: ‘The Catholic Times’ Printing Works Language: English Full title: 'An Address to the Father Mathew OSFC Total Abstinence League of the Sacred Thirst in connection with Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin … delivered in the Father Mathew OSFC, Total Abstinence Hall, Halston Street, Dublin'.
Draft article by Pádraig Ó Broin titled ‘An Aerideacht at St. Enda’s fifty-five years ago’. It is noted that Ó Broin was a captain in the Irish Citizen Army, and was a member of the fourth battalion, Irish Volunteers.
An appeal in support of exiled French Capuchins in Cork. The appeal notes that the friars have been exiled as part of 'the policy of persecution adopted by the present French ministry, and which has resulted in breaking up the whole religious system of that country'. This original printed appeal is pasted into the volume at p. 4.
The article describes a confrontation with the British military during the aeridhacht. It reads ‘during the singing and performances not only were many police present but five aeroplanes appeared and for over an hour circled over the meeting, descending to the closest possible proximity to the crowd and drowning by their din the children’s music, and that flame rockets were dropped from the planes close to the crowd, one of which set light to a thatched roof …’. The article is signed ‘W.F.P.S.’ This is probably William Frederick Paul Stockley, a Sinn Féin politician. The article concludes by declaring that ‘We are not completely emancipated from party politicians and capitalist’ newspapers. And the Irish nation of the future will never be Imperialist’.