Letter from Seán T. O’Kelly, Reading Internment Camp, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., conveying his thanks to Fr. Aloysius, Fr. Augustine and Fr. Albert ‘during “the week” itself and afterwards during those anxious and trying days of our imprisonment in Richmond [barracks]’. Refers to the conditions of other republican prisoners elsewhere: ‘… I only wish the boys in Frongoch were with us. It must be awful for them living under such conditions this harsh weather. The men in Dartmoor, Portland, etc. will I presume be much better off now that they are to be removed to Lewes where it is said too they are to be permitted to associate and to be given facilities for reading and writing’. Some reference is also made to the expulsion of republicans from Dublin Corporation and to the release of Brian na Banba (Brian O’Higgins).
Declaration of Lillie Agnes Connolly’s (wife of James Connolly) reception into the Catholic Church. It reads: ‘I Fr. Aloysius OSFC declare that … I have this fifteenth day of August 1916 received into the Catholic Church Mrs Lily Agnes Connolly observing the prescribed rites and ceremonies’. The document is signed by Lillie Agnes Connolly and witnessed by Fiona Connolly (1907-1976)
Letter from Lillie Connolly, 37 St Patrick’s Road, Drumcondra, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., affirming that she has ‘started the Catholic Belief this morning taking it from the beginning’. She assures Fr. Aloysius that ‘I will study it right through’. Final page is endorsed (in a different hand) with a list of Catholic devotions.
Letter from Arthur Griffith, 'Nationality' Offices, 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., apologising for being unavailable to meet Fr. Aloysius. He adds ‘My friend the bearer … can take any message for me or make any arrangements to suit you’.
Letter from James O’Connor, solicitor, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., regarding a note from British military authorities affirming that ‘certain historical papers … [which] were returned to the late Archbishop Walsh ... . O’Connor advises Fr. Aloysius to ascertain from the Archbishop’s house what papers were returned.
Tribute to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (d. 2 May 1957) in 'The Father Mathew Record'. Includes a tribute from An Taoiseach, Ėamon de Valera dated 23 May 1957
Newspaper clipping from the 'Evening Echo', 11 May 1966, commemorating the links between the Capuchin College at Rochestown in County Cork and republican leaders. Includes a large portrait photograph of Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., ‘one of the first five pupils with whom the college began in 1884 – [he] became rector in 1896 and held that position for almost fourteen years. He was fearless and inspiring in his priestly ministry to the fighting men in Dublin, Easter 1916’. Pasted onto black card.
Circular letter from the Most Rev. Denis Kelly, Bishop of Ross, Bishop’s House, Skibbereen, regarding the number of Irish chaplains in the British Army and Navy. Distinctions are made between incardinated secular clergy and regulars ‘who have gone from the Irish Houses of their respective Provinces’. It is noted that two members of the Capuchin Order in Ireland are serving as chaplains. These were Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap.
