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Letter from Lillie Connolly to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from Lillie Connolly, 37 St Patrick’s Road, Drumcondra, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., affirming that she has ‘started the Catholic Belief this morning taking it from the beginning’. She assures Fr. Aloysius that ‘I will study it right through’. Final page is endorsed (in a different hand) with a list of Catholic devotions.
Letter from Arthur Griffith to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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 to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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.
Copy Letter from Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap. re Civil War Battle
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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.
O’Shea, Michael, 1892-1958, Capuchin priest
Tribute to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. in 'The Father Mathew Record'
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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
Letter from the Bureau of Military History to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Letter from the Bureau of Military History to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. thanking him for presenting the Bureau with the certain documents. Enclosed are copies of some of the documents which Fr. Augustine provided for the Bureau’s Archives:
Bill for £16 9s 0d from Hely’s Ltd., Dame Street, Dublin, addressed to the ‘Irish Volunteers per The O’Rahilly’, together with receipt attached dated 12/7/1916, made out in the name of Rev. Father Augustine, Church Street’;
Typed letter from Hely’s Ltd, to Father Augustine, Church Street, dated 12 July 1916;
Manuscript note in pencil, undated, bearing the signature ‘Ua Rathghaille, 40 Herbert Park’;
One envelope bearing an annotation in pencil: ‘Last letter of Ua Rathghaille’.
Newspaper cutting from the 'Evening Echo'
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
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.
Mass Cruets and Tray used by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. in World War I
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Two small flat-bottomed vessels with a narrow neck and integral spout. Possibly made of Pewter. With accompanying tray for holding the two vessels.
Circular letter from the Most Rev. Denis Kelly, Bishop of Ross
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Circular letter from the Most Rev. Denis Kelly, Bishop of Ross, Bishop’s House, Skibbereen, regarding the number of Irish chaplains in the British Army and Navy. Distinctions are made between incardinated secular clergy and regulars ‘who have gone from the Irish Houses of their respective Provinces’. It is noted that two members of the Capuchin Order in Ireland are serving as chaplains. These were Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap.
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
Newspaper cuttings book compiled and annotated by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Printed stamp on inside front cover: ‘Franciscan Capuchin Library, Church Street, Dublin’. The pages have been numbered by Fr. Stanislaus. The book includes on pp 39-43; 95; 125: cutting of a photographic print of Tomas MacCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork with Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. 19 Mar. 1920. Reports on the hunger strikes of Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Jail and later Terence MacSwiney in Brixton Prison in 1920. With cuttings of photographic prints of Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. and references to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. 'Daily Sketch', 14-16 Apr. 1920; 'Evening Herald', 7 Oct. 1920. On p. 46 there is a cutting of photographic print of Muriel MacSwiney leaving Brixton Prison just before her husband’s death. 'Daily Graphic', 26 Oct. 1920.