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In these pages you can view digital images of various primary source manuscripts, printed documents and other material culture of the confraternities, sodalities and religious associations. Items of confraternity material culture include banners, medals and scapulars which often featured images of the patron saints of various sections, or guilds, of the confraternity.

	Manuscripts Various images of membership registers, minute books, letters, financial records and Parish visitation schedules.
	Banners Various images of confraternity banners. Many confraternities marched and participated in processions, pilgrimages and parades celebrating religious Holy days and other occasions. Banners carried by members portraying images of patron saints featured prominently in the displays.
	Iconography Instruments of piety and devotion, including medals and scapulars worn by members of confraternities, religious images and cards, and venerated places such as shrines and grottoes.
	Printed Matter Confraternities published periodicals and distributed membership manuals, devotional booklets, prayer books and a variety of other ancillary printed materials. They were used as communication vehicles that were distributed to members and other interested parties to highlight the charitable work and to promote their continued progress.
	Photographs From the later nineteenth century and into the twentieth, photography was the means of capturing and highlighting the events and progression of the confraternity activity in Ireland.

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