Reference code
IE CA IR-1/9/1
Title
Correspondence concerning efforts to repatriate the bodies of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap.
Date(s)
- 3 Dec. 1935-15 Dec. 1939 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
9 items; Manuscript and typescript
Name of creator
(1615-2023)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Correspondence of Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., with Robert F. Mahony, President, American Association for Recognition of the Irish Republic; Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Central Council of Irish County Associations; Eugene Twomey, Secretary, Fianna Fail, Inc., Irish Republican Party of America; Charles F. Tiernan; Joseph O’Byrne of the Fathers’ Albert & Dominic Committee; and the Irish American National Alliance. The letters refer to appeals from various Irish-American republican organizations calling for the repatriation to Ireland of the mortal remains of Fathers Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.