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"The Pen is mightier than the sword"
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A pamphlet in the republican interest referring to the issue censorship in the Civil War. Published in Glasgow by by Kirkwood & Co. Printer and place of printing is established from p. [4] and imprint date is based on text.
Ghosts – other ghosts or the priests and the republic
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A pamphlet in the republican interest written under the pseudonym of ‘Columban na Banban’. The pamphlet urges priests to adhere to the Republic and to defy their Bishop’s commands: ‘The Republican Police Force is not disbanded. … Mulcahy will surrender as surely as Macready surrendered. Doubtless when all arguments are used the Bishops will remain your great stumbling block’. (p. 11).
The Arrest and Trial of Capt. Childers
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A pamphlet relating to the trial and execution of Erskine Childers (1870-1922) who was convicted by a Free State military court on charges of illegally possessing a firearm and sentenced to death. While his appeal against the sentence was still pending, Childers was executed by firing squad at the Beggar’s Bush Barracks in Dublin on 24 Nov. 1922. The tract includes an elegy on Erskine Childers by Padraig de Brún. Published in London by Leslie Smith & Co., printers.
Free State Freaks / J.J. Walsh
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to J.J. Walsh as ‘The man of “letters” with the “mailed” fist'.
Free State Freaks / Desmond Fitzgerald
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An anti-Treaty cartoon referring to Desmond Fitzgerald (1889-1947), Minister for External Affairs (1922-7), and Minister for Propaganda outside the cabinet (August 1921). The caption refers to Fitzgerald as ‘Liar in Chief to Publicity Department. Slave-State’.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
O’Hegarty thanks those involved in both the United States and in Ireland for the successful ‘repatriation of the bodies of the patriot priests’.
Photographic print of President Seán T. O’Kelly at the Capuchin Retreat House, Raheny
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Photographic print of President Seán T. O’Kelly at the Capuchin Retreat House, Raheny. Typescript annotation on the reverse reads: ‘One of the first events covered by Gael-Linn’s all-Irish newsreel – directed, edited, and produced in Ireland was the blessing of the Calvary at the Capuchin Retreat House Raheny on June 14 in memory of two patriot priests, Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., where Mr. O’Kelly and Mr. de Valera made their last appearance together as President and Taoiseach. The still from the ‘Amharc Eireann’ shows Mr. O’Kelly waving to the crowd as he leaves. With him are Rev. Fr. Hillary McDonagh OFM Cap, (left), Rev. Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap. and Rev. Fr. Theodore Murphy OFM Cap., Superior of the Retreat House. The file includes a colour photographic print of the ‘Calvary in memory of Fr. Albert and Fr. Dominic erected by the old boys of Fianna Éireann’.
Recollections by Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Recollections by an t-Athar Eláir OFM Cap. (Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap.) of the re-internment of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. in the cemetery of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork, in 1958. The notes were compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. The manuscript is incomplete.
Shaw, Nessan, 1915-1997, Capuchin priest
To the President of the United States of America
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An address to Woodrow Wilson, United States President, on the issue of conscription crisis in Ireland. Signed by Laurence O’Neill, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Flier issued to promote the Irish Bond Certificate campaign in the United States
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A republican flier used to publicize the issuing of Irish Bond Certificates in the United States. A comparison is drawn between Benjamin Franklin’s visit to Ireland in 1769 and Eamon de Valera’s visit to the America in 1919. The flier asks ‘Will America do unto Ireland in 1920 as Ireland did unto America in 1769?’ Readers are asked to ‘Subscribe for the bond certificates of the Republic of Ireland and mail your check today to Eamon De Valera, 411 Fifth Avenue, New York’.