Reference code
IE CA IR-1/1/2/4/7
Title
Copy letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Ėamon de Valera
Date(s)
- 26 Jan. 1925 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 p.; Typescript copy
Name of creator
(24 October 1877-14 February 1925)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Copy letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St Francis Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, to Eamon de Valera, President of the Republic of Ireland, pledging his ‘unchanged and unchangeable, and uncompromising’ allegiance to the Republic and to you, its President’. He argues that ‘in the movement for the independence of Ireland I have always endeavoured to remember that I was a Capuchin Priest’.