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Leather-bound hardback photograph album compiled by Doris Ballingal. The album contains snapshots taken on the Adare Manor estate, including views of the house, Desmond Castle and Franciscan Friary, lodges and other auxiliary buildings within the estate, including a tobacco barn; also views of the village, including the Augustinian and Trinitarian churches, Dunraven Arms, town hall and a St Patrick’s Day parade on the main street; images of a pet goat, parrot and an assortment of pet cats, dogs, ponies and horses; outdoor picnics and tea parties; motor cars; servants and staff; friends and family members and girls playing golf; views of the Maigue River, Foynes, Askeaton and Glin Castle in county Limerick, Ballyheigue in county Kerry, Whinfield House (in Scotland?), the city of Edinburgh and the Breda estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; views of men working in the Killoran slate quarry in Nenagh, county Tipperary; also images of a flood on the Adare Manor estate, a meet of the Limerick Hounds, images of a gardener’s house after a fire and of a biplane in a field. Many of the images are faded, some have been torn out and others marred by hand-coloured frames. Most of the images bear captions and dates. For loose items originally inserted between the pages of the album, see P69/1/19-20.

Photocopy of a page of notes by Cornelius F. Smith concerning the early history of the Royal Irish Automobile Club, which contains a reference to Robert Rennie Ballingal. Attached to the notes is a photocopy of the first two pages of an article entitled 'Roads Conference at Clara' from the 14 July 1906 issue of Motor News.

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71 or 74, Lisbon, Portugal to his parents: ‘we are getting it pretty easy out here at present it is very quiet we are about 2 miles from Madrid now it look to be a great place from where we are… I do be looking forward to your letters for a bit of news as we do not no what is going on at home we get no English papers out here’.

Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o General O’Duffy, Cáceres, Spain to his parents: ‘it wont be long now till I am back we are to land at the north wall on the 23rd May at 2OC’.

Photocopy of a 1000-mark banknote or ‘Reichsbanknote’, issued in Berlin on 21 April 1910.

Photocopy of a letter from Joseph A. Cunningham, Quarter-master of ‘C’ Company, entitled ‘IRISH CRUSADE IN SPAIN, addressed to La Quince Bandera del Tercio (La Bandera Irlandesa), noting intention of surviving members of ‘the Irish Crusade to Spain’ to mark the tenth anniversary of their ‘departure for the Battle Field of Christ’, marked by a mass offered in Dublin to deceased comrades, followed by a visit to the grave of General Eoin O’Duffy, noting ‘Let us all – from Antrim to Kerry, from Wexford to Donegal – for the sake of those of us who lie out beyond (Cáceres, Valdemoro, Ciempozuelos, La Marañosa, Brunete) or in graveyards keep still noble the memory of the men who formed the most memorable military crusade in Irish History’.

Photocopy of a letter from Joseph A. Cunningham, Solicitor, Templeshannon, Enniscorthy, county Wexford to Captain Maurice J. Fennell, Church Street, Rathkeale, county Limerick, regarding his article in the Irish Independent on 2 March 1976 and Cunningham’s own published memoirs, and notes ‘I am wondering is Sergeant Sheehy (Garryowen?) alive or Tom Neaney. Tom saved my life once (I have always felt) when he stopped a runaway mule in Ciempozeulos one afternoon with Paddy Casey (Donegal) and myself helpless in the dray. I can still see it careering furiously for the narrow archway leading from the town to the lines.’ In addition, notes holding an interview with General Franco in 1973. Also gives an update on the whereabouts of some of his former colleagues from the Irish Brigade. Concludes by stating ‘For me the fight in Spain was Christ – v – Anti-Christ and everything really Irish must be radically Christian. A Republic that would not be Christian would not be Irish’.

Photocopy of a letter from former Irish Brigadier, Frank B. Fitzgerald, Jersey, to Denis O’Shaughnassy, Corbally, county Limerick, complimenting his article in the Limerick Leader and outlining his life after returning from Spain, which included joining the R.A.F. In relation to Spain, notes the first casualty of the Irish Brigade, ‘It was Tom Hyde from Middletown Co Cork one of the flour milling family’, and also describes an attack on the railway line from Madrid noting ‘We blew the train off the track and all the train crew were killed’. In addition, mentions losses to the company and outlines a rescue operation of one of his men, stating ‘I raced up the left bank hoping I might save him. I grabbed his arm while I held on to a small bush on the bank three of my men pulled me and the man out. We wouldn’t have lasted another 30 secs.’ Also records training in base at Cáceres. Also contains section entitled ‘GENERAL FRANCO’S PART IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS’. Paginated.

Certificate of service for Crusade in Spain 1936-1937 for James Roche, Bandon, county Cork who served as medic with Irish Brigade from November 1936 to June 1937, in recognition of his loyalty, courage and good conduct. Signed by General Franco and General O’Duffy.

Sepia-toned photograph of members of the Irish Brigade outside a church in Ciempozuelos with General Eoin O’Duffy distributing shamrock.