Seanchas, cuimhní cinn / by Seán Ó Dálaigh

Stair na mBlascaodaí, beag agus mór / by Tomás Ó Criomhthain

Original holograph manuscript of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. First published in 1878, was Hardy’s 6th novel. It initially appeared as a 12-part series in the magazine Belgravia, where its somewhat controversial thematic content caused a stir. Subsequently, it has become one of Hardy’s best known and most popular novels. The manuscript of The Return of the Native follows an interesting and somewhat complicated path.

[Handwritten account by J.R. Clark, a civil servant with the Office of Public Works, of his experiences during Easter Week, 1916]

['1916 Before and After', 1937.]

[Copy of petition of exiled Irish Catholic nobles to Pope Clement XI.]

[Questions for intending students of the Ludovisian College for Irish secular clergy, Rome.]

[Copy of an appeal for protection by Fr George Dillon OFM to the French parliament.]

[Initialed title to oath of fidelity. Otherwise blank.]

[Copy of the last speech of Oliver Plunkett, Catholic archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland.]

[Certification provided to Captain Paul Creane by Fr Bonaventure Welche OFM, Rome, 20th September 1695.]

[Copy of a permit for six Irishmen to travel, Saint Malo, 22nd February 1695, endorsed by Commissioner Ducros, Marseilles, April 1695.]

[Fragmentary remonstrance to the exiled court at St Germain-en-Laye with an appended copy of a letter 18th September 1707.]

[Verified copy of the proceedings of the Irish Franciscan chapter held in Dublin, July 1666, under the presidency of Fr Mark Brown OFM, Dublin, with seal, 7th August 1666.]

[Copy of a papal brief of Alexander VII to the Irish Franciscan province, 3rd July 1656.]

[Description of events in Ireland from February 1646 to July 1647.]

[Transcripts of news reports on Oliver Cromwell's military advance in Ireland, April 1650.]

[Letter of the Irish Franciscan minister provincial and other superiors against Fr Peter Walsh OFM, Jamestown, County Leitrim, 1st July 1662.]

[Fr Anthony Docherty OFM to the Franciscan minister general and commissary general, 12th September 1662.]

[Copy of request and confirmation of special dispensation granted to the friars of the Irish Franciscan province in 1663.]

[Short tract on the major languages of Europe followed by a description of the counties of Ulster and the Catholic bishoprics of Ireland.]

[Endorsed declaration on the rule to be observed at St Anthony's College, by Archbishop Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire OFM, Madrid, with seal, 13th February 1613.]

[Fragment of 'a briefe and small relation of ye miseries of ye poore Catholickes of Ireland'.]

[Tract relating to the imprisonment of Peter Creagh, entitled: 'Romana Depredationis […] Causa Hibernorum incarceratorum Romae anno 1695'.]