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Photocopy of an article (in Irish) on the Bád Mór and boats of Connemara that features the Ó Cathasaigh family.

Typed copy of an article on bells in early Christianity (Dictionnaire 3 (2), 1959).

Photocopy of an article published in the 15 June 1985 edition of the Tuam Herald on the passing of Percy Paley two weeks earlier. The article notes his lineage within the Kirwan family, his inheritance of the estate at Castle Hacket (also referred to as Castle Hackett or Castlehacket), and his interests in environmental conservation and genealogy.

Typed copy of an unattributed tourism article on Dublin, c. 1930s.

Typed copy of Father Hayes' article 'Forty-Seven', published in the Muintir na Tíre Handbook 1947. In it, Father Hayes comments on the 100th anniversary of the most devastating year of the Irish famine ('Black '47') and warns that the same events may repeat themselves due to the effects of class warfare and the separation of religion from society. He posits the Muintir na Tíre parish guild as 'a guarantee of security and responsibility, a protection against class-warfare, a stimulus to duty and responsibility, a contribution to national stability and to the reconstruction and perfection of the social order.'

Reprint of an article by Abbé François Houtart, 'The Silent Revolution', originally published in Commonweal, vol. 93, no. 13 (July-August 1955): 55-66. The article deals with demographic change and the rise of Marxism in Latin America due to urbanisation.

Leaflet containing an article authored by Muintir na Tíre, 'How to Form a Parish Council', reprinted from the 28 June 1940 edition of The Standard.

First 10 pages of handwritten text of an undated draft of Lahy's 'Knocknagow Corner' column. '1959' is written on the front page but this is impossible as Canon Hayes passed in January 1957.

Text of an article from the September 1956 issue of The Landmark summarising the Muintir na Tíre Rural Week in Killarney, 11-19 August 1956.

Typed copy of Father Hayes' article 'Land League Memories', published in the Muintir na Tíre Handbook 1946. In it, Father Hayes celebrates the Irish National Land League, recalls his parents' eviction from their home in Murroe in 1882 during the Land War and his early childhood growing up in a crowded hut as a result, and quotes Archbishop Michael Browne of Galway in urging Ireland to 'value the land and the homesteads for which we fought' in the manner of Michael Davitt. See also P134/12/1/2/10/105/.