This week we offer a significant amount of freshly digitized material from Distinctive Collections for your research consideration. Especially noteworthy are a number of pamphlets and materials from the Joseph McGarrity Collection, more the early newspaper and story paper issues, and this year’s program for the annual banquet of the Friendly Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick.

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

The Green Mountain Boys; or, Ethan Allen’s heroism / by John De Morgan
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:657408]

Periodicals

Comfort, v. 8, no. 12, October, 1896

Comfort (1 issue added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:656891]

The Girls’ companion, v. VI, no. 26, June 29, 1907

Girls’ Companion (5 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:652562?lookfor=title%3Ajune

New York Ledger (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:649658?lookfor=title%3Ajuly]

Detail, Street and Smith’s New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, &c., v. 60, no. 1, October 15, 1904

New York Weekly (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660877?lookfor=title%3Aoctober+title%3A1904]

Street & Smith’s Literary Album, v. I, no. 3, January 6, 1866

Street & Smith’s Literary Album (3 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:658812]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:658830]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:658846]

Weekly Novelette (2 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:657520]
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:657540]

Joseph McGarrity Collection

Art

Realia, Requiescat in pace Ald. Terence McSwiney (Lord Mayor of Cork)

Realia, Requiescat in pace Ald. Terence McSwiney (Lord Mayor of Cork) : born in West Cork, 28th March 1880. Died in Brixton prison, October 25th 1920 after a hunger strike lasting seventy four days. Age 40.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:659144]

Books

[ix] p., The patriotic songs and poems of J.J. Finnan (“Myles”)

The patriotic songs and poems of J.J. Finnan (“Myles”)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:660189]

Sketch of the origin and operations of the Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics : Being a record of important documents and information to the commencement of the year 1852 / by the Rev. William Marrable, A.M.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:659600]

A Brief View of the Church of Ireland, in its early purity and independence; its subjugation and restoration / by the Rev. William Baillie, LL.D.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:659648]

A letter to his grace the Archbishop of Dublin :on the nature, government, and tendency of Miss Sellon’s establishment at Plymouth, called the “Sisters of Mercy” / by the Rev. W.G. Cookesley. M.A. with the Archbishop’s reply and postscript
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:659072]

System of Irish Education : Explained and Defended / by the Rev. James Carlile
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:659680]

[9] p., The lady of Mourne

The Lady of Mourne: a ballad of Ulster, in the thirteenth century / by William McMechan, Esq.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:659768]

p. 41, A handbook of Celtic ornament

A handbook of Celtic ornament : being a key to the construction of all types of that form of decoration, for the use of schools, art teachers, designers, architects, sculptors, etc., with over 700 illustrations / by John G. Merne
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:658952]

Newspapers

Detail, “Pictures Impressed On The Mind During 1902”, Saturday Globe, v. 22, no. 32, Saturday, December 27, 1902

Saturday Globe (12 issues added)
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:646198]

The Society of The Friendly Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick for The Relief of Emigrants from Ireland

Programs

[3] p., Program, The Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, 250th Annual

Program, The Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, 250th Annual Banquet, September 17, 2021.
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:659150]

Villanova student author

Undergraduate Theses

p. 39, Analysis of The Commuter Station

Analysis of The Commuter Station /Robert C. McIntire
[https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:659876]