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With digital objects Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution
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Straight Talk

The file contains the following editions of this Anti-Treaty publication: 8 Nov. 1922; 22 Nov. 1922 (No. 2); 29 Nov. 1922 (No. 3); 14 Dec. 1922 (No. 5).

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’.

Terence MacSwiney and Capuchin Friars at Rochestown

Photographic print of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., Rector of Rochestown College; Fr. Berchmans Cantillon OFM Cap.; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Superior, Rochestown Capuchin Friary; Fr. Francis Hayes OFM Cap. The original print is pasted onto card with the title: ‘Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork at the College, May 1920’. With three later reproductions.

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.

The bishops' pastoral: a prisoner's letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin / Proinnsias Ó Gallchobhair has addressed the following letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin …

Letter dated 13 Nov. 1922, signed Proinnsias Ó Gallchobhair (Frank Gallagher), and addressed to the Most Rev. Edward Joseph Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin (1872-1940). The letter refers to the treatment of Republican prisoners. Published in Glasgow and printed by Kirkwood & Co.

The branded arm of James O’Reilly

An anti-Treaty publicity item titled 'The branded arm of James O’Reilly Sketched from life by C de M'. The cartoon is attributed to Constance Markievicz (1868-1927). The sketch shows an arm with the sleeve rolled up to expose branded marks. According to the printed statement on the accompanying page, Stephen Gorman aka James O’Reilly of Ballyblia, Ardee, County Louth, was arrested on 11 September 1922 while travelling on a weekend visit to Drogheda. He was arrested on suspicion that he had taken part in a republican demonstration in Ardee. He was then branded.

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