To Father Albert OSFC from Lily O’Brennan
- IE CA CP/3/16/2/17
- Part
- 18 Feb. 1925
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of tribute poem to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. / Kilkenny Friary by Lily O’Brennan. (Volume page 101).
To Father Albert OSFC from Lily O’Brennan
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of tribute poem to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. / Kilkenny Friary by Lily O’Brennan. (Volume page 101).
Seán Heuston’s death / review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1935)
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of an article referring to a reprint of a letter of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. in which he describes Seán Heuston’s execution. The letter was published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1935) which the ‘Irish Press’ article commends.
Memorandum of Ambulance Work & Efforts for Peace during the Civil War
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
‘Memorandum of Ambulance work & efforts for peace’ by J.P. Homan, Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin. The memorandum refers to his work with St. John’s Ambulance during the Civil War hostilities in Dublin in June and July 1922. Specific mention is made of Homan’s interactions with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and the friar’s efforts to secure a cessation of the fighting. Includes a short clipping of an obituary for J.P. Homan (‘Irish Independent’, 6 Aug. 1944). (Volume pages 79-87).
Letter from Rory O’Connor to Fr. Albert Bibby
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A letter from Rory O’Connor to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. recalling the republican occupation of the Four Courts and the assistance rendered by the friar during that time. Reference is also made to ‘co-ordinated military action against N.E. Ulster’. O’Connor concludes ‘We have never acknowledged the heroic services which you rendered us during the days you were with us in the Four Courts, during the attack, it seems unnecessar[y] as your devotion to Ireland’s liberty is no less than ours’. (Volume page 112).
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from Robert Barton, Glendalough House, Annamoe, County Wicklow, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ which he describes as a ‘work that reflects credit to the whole nation’. He also refers to his own contribution to the ‘Annual’. He also mentions his great friendship with the late Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. who gave him the Father Mathew temperance pledge. He adds ‘The little medal he gave me was on my watch chain when I entered Portland Gaol but I was unable to recover any property when released, so I am bound by a Capuchin pledge until death’.
Death of Peter Murray / ‘Irish Patriot Dies in the US’
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of a report on the death of Peter Murray, a prominent Irish American republican activist in California. Reference is made in the obituary to Murray’s friendship with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Santa Inés. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Weekly’ (24 July 1944). (Volume page 21).
Death of Fr. Albert Bibby / ‘A Hero of Easter Week’
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of an article reporting on the death of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. in California on 14 February 1925. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A clipping of an article titled ‘Father Albert Dead / A prominent figure in recent Irish history’. The article provides a biographical sketch of his life (with a photographic print). (Volume page 89).
Conrad na Gaelige Summer School
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Fr. Richard Henebry (front row, seated, second from left) at an Irish language summer school organised by Conrad na Gaelige. The summer school was possibly held in the Waterford Gaeltacht. Fr. Albert Bibby OSFC is seated in the front row (first on the right).
An Account of the Execution of Seán Hueston
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A letter from Patrick Collins, 6 Clonmore Road, Ballybough, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing a copy of an account of the final hours and execution of Seán Hueston in Kilmainham Jail on 8 May 1916. The account was written by his uncle who was a relation of Seán Hueston. Reference is made in the account to the ministrations to Heuston by Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.