A collection of material related to the Easter Rising 1916 from the IBVM (Loreto) Institute & Irish Province Archives, including contemporaneous accounts of the Rising as observed by the Loreto Sisters at St Stephen’s Green Dublin and Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham. The material is collated from three separate Loreto archival collections: the community archives of Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham; Loreto College, 53 St Stephen’s Green; and M. Michael Corcoran IBVM, Superior General 1888 – 1918. The collection comprises of two manuscript community annals, a military permit, picture postcards from Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham and Loreto College, 53 St Stephen’s Green, and a typed letter from M. Michael Corcoran IBVM, Superior General 1888 – 1918.

Postcard of Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, depicting the front lawn, a pupil playing with a dog, and farm workers mowing and saving hay on the back lawn.

Ode to Mellifont. / By R. J. Hughes. Delivered at Mellifont, on Sunday, 9th July, 1882.

[Postcards and and correspondence, including various photographs and a guidebook to the crypt of Jouarre.]

Small, hard bound, green photograph album titled 'Rathfarnham 1904' containing 23 black and white photographs (of uniform size), mainly of the gardens, grounds, buildings, Sisters, pupils and staff in Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham. Some of the photographs are captioned, many are not. The title was attributed by a previous archivist, and cannot be attributed to the photographer, M. Michael Corcoran.

Large, hard bound, light brown photograph album, containing 16 panoramic, black and white photographs, capturing buildings and grounds in Rathfarnham, and two sea views. Embossed on the front cover is 'Kodak Panorams'. This album should be viewed alongside M. Michael Corcoran's other images of Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham. Few of the photographs are captioned, most are not.

[Receipts for payment of school fees by Eugene O'Curry.]

[Two watercolour paintings of 'St. Peter's Abbey [Newtown Abbey] at Newtown near Trim' (Co. Meath) / by Thomas Roberts.]

[Two watercolour paintings of 'Timoleague Abbey' (Co. Cork) / by William Ashford.]

[Two watercolour paintings, one of 'Dunbrody Abbey' (Co. Wexford) / by Jonathan Fisher and one of an 'Ellevation of Tintern Abbey' (Co. Wexford) / by Sir Vesey Colclough.]

[Two watercolour paintings, one of the exterior of 'The Abbey of Bective' (Co. Meath) and one of the 'Arches of y Cloisters' / by Gabriel Beranger.]

Large, hardbound, light brown photograph album, untitled, containing 140 black and white photographs (of assorted sizes), capturing aspects of life in Rathfarnham, Balbriggan, India, and Australia. Locations are generally not identified. Some of the photographs are captioned, many are not.

[Watercolour painting of 'The Abbey & Round Tower at Kildare' (Co. Kildare) / by Rev. Seymour.]

[Watercolour painting of 'The South Isle of the Black Abbey' (Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny) / by an unidentified artist.]

[Watercolour painting of the 'Abbey of Holy Cross, 2nd view' (Co. Tipperary) / by Sir Nathaniel Barry.]

Postcard sized photograph of young boarders in school uniforms, holding tennis racquets. On the verso of the photograph is written 'Loreto Archive, pupils Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham'.