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Terence MacSwiney Funeral Procession

Terence MacSwiney Funeral Procession

An image showing funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork on 31 October 1920. Several Capuchin friars are identifiable in the procession including Fr. Cyril O’Sullivan OFM Cap., Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., and Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap.

Sunday Independent

Sunday Independent

The articles refer to attempts to secure a truce between Free State forces and republican irregulars in order to ‘avert a national disaster’.

Statement by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. on the need to stamp out Freemasonry

Statement by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to the Chief of Staff of the IRA, Four Courts’ Barracks, on the need to stamp out Freemasonry in Ireland. The report reads: ‘Freemasonry is the same everywhere in principle and desire – to destroy all religion Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Pagan to make way for its own lewd and lustful phallic worship’. Fr Dominic urges that no restraint be shown in destroying Masonic emblems. He writes: ‘I think you may have no scruple in destroying them, I think they should be destroyed in as much as they are not religious emblems, but symbols of lewdness, lust and impurity. The reason for the destruction should be made publicly known’.

Spanish Tribute to Terence MacSwiney

Spanish Tribute to Terence MacSwiney

A tribute to Terence MacSwiney seemingly published in Madrid, Spain, in August 1921. The text of the tribute is given in Spanish with an Irish and English translation. A portrait print of MacSwiney by the Spanish artist Maroto accompanies the text. This copy is signed by his sister Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne) dated 25 October 1922.

Souvenir of the golden jubilee of Fianna Éireann

At head of the title: August 16, 1909 - Na Fianna Éireann - August 16, 1959. The publication includes a forward by Eamon Martin, former chief of staff, and articles by Constance Markievicz, P.H. Pearse, J. Connolly, and Sir Roger Casement. With a tribute to the ‘Franciscan [Capuchin] Friends of the Fianna’. The book was edited by Cathal O’Shannon.

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