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Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to his weakened condition and his closeness to death. He asks for 'forgiveness and pardon for all my faults, and for all the disedifications I have given, as well for all the violations of [the] Rule, Constitutions and Regulations of which I have been guilty'. Bibby asserts that he wishes 'to die a loyal member of the Irish Province'. He encloses a newspaper cutting from the 'Santa Barbara Daily News' (21 Jan. 1925) containing an article with (photographic prints) of Mission Santa Inés and ‘Padre Albert’. With a cover and copies.

An obedience from Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. requiring him to leave the Church Street Friary in Dublin and to take up residence in the Capuchin Friary in Rochestown in County Cork.

Letter from Margaret 'Aggie' Bibby to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. She writes that she has met ‘friends of poor Tomás [Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.] who had just come from America. Immediately after his death the leaders of A.A.R.I.R. made a request on superior Fr. Joseph [Fenlon] to be allowed ship his body to Ireland as Tomás wished. He cabled to Fr. Peter [Bowe]. Reply came two days later: "Bury Fr. Albert in Santa Inez in the usual way". She later notes that care was taken to ensure that Fr. Albert's body was buried in a ‘metal casket hermetically sealed’. She concludes by expressing the hope that her brother's ‘bones will rest in the land he loved so well. Never shall we forget the Franciscan tyrants’.

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.

Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork, to Winifred Etheridge, c/o Major F. Etheridge DSO, Broadway Cottage, Littleham, North Exmouth, Devon. The letter (27 January 1923) provides a detailed, eyewitness description of an engagement between Free State soldiers and irregular republicans near Rochestown College in August 1922. Winifred Etheridge was a sister of Ian McKenzie Kennedy, a Scottish-born republican, who died during the battle. The file also includes a photocopy of a letter (26 August 1922) from Nora Lucey, 3 Pembroke Street, Cork, to Mrs McKenzie Kennedy providing further detail on the skirmish and on the death of her son, Ian McKenzie Kennedy. A copy sketch map (drawn by Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap.) showing details of the battle between Free State forces and Anti-Treaty irregulars around Rochestown is also extant in the file.

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.

Two small flat-bottomed vessels with a narrow neck and integral spout. Possibly made of Pewter. With accompanying tray for holding the two vessels.

Letter from Miceál Ó Coileáin (Michael Collins), Aire Airgid (Minister for Finance), Dáil Éireann, Mansion House, Dublin, to Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne (Terence MacSwiney), regarding monies from the city of Cork in connection with the advancement of the Dáil Éireann Loan. In Irish.