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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.

The poem reads:
‘Thy favours still, O Lord bestow;
Through Mary’s hands may grace still flow;
Give me the Cross or pain or woe,
But give to Eire Liberty’.

A ‘Savage Model 1907’ Pistol reputed to have been used by an Irish Volunteer during the 1916 Rising. The weapon was found by a Capuchin friar on North King Street after the conclusion of the hostilities. With leather holster and spare bullet cartridge. A manuscript note found with the pistol in the gallery of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street reads:
‘These are souvenirs of the 1916 Rising’. A revolver used in King Street. A scissors used in the Four Courts’. Fr. Col[umbus Murphy OFM Cap.]’.

A leather bandolier reputed to have been used by an Irish Volunteer during the 1916 Rising. Retrieved from the gallery of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. The bandolier has five pouches for the storage of ammunition.

A hopsack bag reputed to have been used by an Irish Volunteer during the 1916 Rising. Retrieved from the gallery of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.

Fused fragments of metal and assorted bullet cartridges reputedly taken from the destroyed shell of the General Post Office in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising.

Copy extract from a letter by Harry O’Hanrahan to his mother and sisters. The letter is in the hand of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. He refers to his detainment in Richmond Barracks and to detectives selecting ‘out about 14 including the 2 Cosgraves, T. Mac Donagh, Kent, ourselves etc …’. He also refers to the fighting in Jacob’s Biscuit Factory.

A calling card of P.H. Pearse, St. Enda’s College, Rathfarnham. Manuscript signature of Ėamon de Valéra on reverse.

Letter from Patrick Holohan, ‘Number: 975, hut 2, Irish Prisoner … Frongoch, North Wales’ to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, referring to the provision of religious services and giving news of conditions and prisoners at the camp. Holohan adds ‘I was glad to hear that you were with Heuston when he died as I was very fond of him. It is delightful to see all our leaders being converted to the Catholic faith’. With cover which has been opened by the censor.

Copy letter from Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to his chaplain, Fr. E.F. Murnane, regarding the progress of his appeal against the indictment of high treason. With a letter (2 Aug. 1916) from E.F. Murnane, The Presbytery, Dockhead, [Bermondsey, London, S.E.], in the same hand, to George Gavan Duffy regarding Casement’s last hours. Includes a copy extract from a letter from the Prison Chaplain giving a brief account of Casement’s piety before his execution. The file also includes an original letter from Roger Casement, Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place, S.W., to Francis H. Cowper (16 Dec. 1903) declaring that all is well him ‘but fearful Congo row is brewing and I shall be the storm centre I fear’. He adds 'Give the brindled John my love and a kiss on his black nose. I wish I were in Lisbon now …’. The ‘brindled John’ was presumably a domestic cat or dog owned by Cowper; brindled referring to a specific type of patchy colouring most commonly associated with the patterned fur of cats. It is unknown how this letter was acquired by the Capuchin friars but it is likely that it was given to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. for safekeeping by an nationalist acquaintance.