Wartime diary and scrapbook, apparently maintained by Irishman Stephen O'Farrell (Stiofan O Fearghail), based on cards and envelopes addressed to him. Contains newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, drawings and over 150 pages of manuscript diary entries covering the period 1942-1946. Includes details of the compiler's service with Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil (Local Defense Force, or LDF), an account of events in Dublin on May 8, 1945 (the date of German capitulation), Irish elections and political campaigns, drawings of Irish Army and Navy insignia, and gardening. Laid in are some original letters, including one from Dr. Pat McCartan dated July 27, 1945, and a note from German ambassador E. Hempel, dated May 17, 1948. At front is a handwritten index to subjects.