In the Centenary year of the Easter Rising Matthew Russell presented family papers of Thomas MacDonagh to the Thomas MacDonagh Museum, Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, birthplace of the executed patriot. They include, inter alia, literary works and plays of Thomas MacDonagh, mss of published works of his mother, correspondence and a family bible. There is also a printer’s block from the machine (now lost) on which was printed the Proclamation of Independence, of which Thomas MacDonagh was one of the seven signatories in Easter Week, 1916.