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Easter Week, 1916 by W. J. Brennan-Whitmore.

File containing press cuttings with articles on various subjects [some of which were collected by Kate O’Brien] in the Spectator, Irish Times, Observer, Tempo, Irish Press, New York Times and The Times, addressing holiday destinations, pensions, the death of the actress Katherine Cornell, work of the writer Mary Vaughan, the historian Professor F. S. L. Lyons, the Burren in county Clare, and the politician Cecelia Lynch. Also a photograph of Drama Critics Circle, a series of three articles by John A. Jackson entitled ‘The Irish Immigrant in England’, a poem by Philip Larkin entitled ‘Home is so sad’, a signed poem by John Hewitt and work by Hilaire Belloc, Denis Devlin and Mary Oliver.

Press cuttings on miscellaneous topics, as follows: farm wages in 1867; the 1923 Land Act; history of hearth tax; the Battle of the Yellow Ford; the flogging of a man in Clogheen in 1798; Killaloe in 1836; the murder of Bridget Cleary in 1895; the Russo-German War during the Second World War; the Portuguese Royalist organisation; the provision of an audio-visual show at Kilmainham Gaol; recollections of a childhood in Nire, county Waterford; genealogical research in Ballyporeen, county Tipperary; the opening of Adare Manor as a luxury hotel; and the history of Redwood Castle near Lorrha, county Tipperary.

Press cuttings from the Cork Examiner relating to a bogus eviction case and how disputes were dealt with in Sinn Fein Courts.

Press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Evening Echo, Hibernia and Irish Times relating to a nuclear training device at University College Cork and concerns expressed over the danger imposed by the device on the safety of staff and students working in the Physics Department. In two folders.

Press cuttings relating to the parish, castle and abbey of Cahir, the duel of Cappauniacke near Cahir, and the Cahir rail accident of 1955.

Press cuttings relating to the Rock of Cashel, the Bolton Library, Cashel Museum, and other topics pertaining to Cashel.

Press cuttings relating to the departure from Limerick of Charles Henry Gubbins, manager of the firm of Messrs W. J. Shaw and Sons, to manage the firm’s branch in Cork.

Press cuttings relating to the marriage, career and death of Charles Vincent O’Malley and the death of his mother Helena O’Malley née Ryan. One item is a photocopy. In two folders.

Press cuttings relating to the history of Clonmel and Fethard in county Tipperary.