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     An 1867 cartoon by Sir John Tenniel entitled “The Fenian Guy Fawkes” from the magazine Punch.      The Fenian in the picture sits on top of the gunpowder keg holding a torch with innocent women and children surrounding him.

This is an excerpt from a 1922 review of Ulysses by Shane Leslie in the Irish literary periodical The Quarterly Review. In one of his concluding statements, Leslie refers to Ulysses as “an attempted Clerkenwell explosion in the well-guarded,…

Poem from the English Romantic Period with Orientalist motifs

An extract (page 9) from the proceedings of the third Oireachtas festival in Dublin in 1899. The Oireachtas was established by the Gaelic League in the Revival period and continues to this day to be a celebration of Irish language, literature, song…

Zionist essay showing the improvements Jewish settlers during the Second Aliyah made to the agricultural system in Palestine.

A text written by a Dublin-based Irish Jesuit, Nicholas Walsh, attempting to determine the number of saved souls compared to lost souls.

Late nineteenth-century catechism of Irish history from ancient to contemporary times

A photo of Father John Conmee, S.J., former rector of Clongowes College and prefect of studies at Belvedere College.

A five page encylical written by Pope Leo XIII in 1899, four years before his death.

The text elucidates official Catholic positions while reinforcing the doctrine that there is no salvation outside the Church.

The Ormond Hotel in Dublin, Ireland is a famous hotel that is the setting for the "Sirens" episode of Ulysses.